Alison Drake, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor, Global Health

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Alison Drake, MPH, PhD is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Global Health. She is currently an Assistant Director of the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescent, and Children (Global WACh) and co-Director of the Family Planning Decision Support Scientific Priority Area for Global WACh. Dr. Drake’s research interests include HIV prevention among women and adolescents, incident maternal HIV infections, vertical HIV transmission, adolescent reproductive health, mobile health, and family planning. She is the PI for an R01 testing a mobile health counseling intervention to reduce contraceptive discontinuation and help women living with HIV achieve their reproductive health goals in a randomized clinical trial in Kenya. She is also a co-PI of 2 studies on COVID-19 prevalence, household transmission, and antibody response among pregnant women and their household members in the Seattle area. In addition, she is a co-instructor for two courses in the School of Public Health, Responsible Conduct of Research: Global to Local and Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health.   

1. Coomes, DM, Meisner, J, Roberts, DA, Rodriguez, P, Owiredu, MN, Sharma, M et al.. Maternal HIV retesting during pregnancy and postpartum among high-risk populations in Kenya, South Africa, and Ukraine: Cost-effectiveness of preventing vertical transmission. medRxiv. 2025; :. doi: 10.1101/2025.04.08.25325413. PubMed PMID:40297410 PubMed Central PMC12036387.
2. Drake, AL, Jiang, W, Kitao, P, Farid, S, Richardson, BA, Katz, DA et al.. Preferences and uptake of home-based HIV self-testing for maternal retesting in Kenya. PLoS One. 2024;19 (8):e0302077. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302077. PubMed PMID:39137189 PubMed Central PMC11321582.
3. Chhun, N, Rothschild, CW, Penumetsa, M, Matemo, D, Kithao, P, Richardson, BA et al.. Evaluating the performance of a risk assessment score tool to predict HIV acquisition among pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya. PLoS One. 2024;19 (7):e0306992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306992. PubMed PMID:38985777 PubMed Central PMC11236202.
4. Drake, AL, Jiang, W, Kitao, P, Farid, S, Richardson, BA, Katz, DA et al.. Preferences and uptake of home-based HIV self-testing for maternal retesting in Kenya. medRxiv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.28.24305050. PubMed PMID:38585992 PubMed Central PMC10996825.
5. Ngumbau, N, Unger, JA, Wandika, B, Atieno, C, Beima-Sofie, K, Dettinger, J et al.. Mobile solutions to Empower reproductive life planning for women living with HIV in Kenya (MWACh EMPOWER): Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2024;19 (4):e0300642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300642. PubMed PMID:38557692 PubMed Central PMC10984530.