Erin Portillo is a Family Planning Program Officer II for HC3. She is a public health professional with more than six years experience in international development, three of which were devoted to health project design and implementation in the field. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs and its HC3 project, Erin worked in Ethiopia as a PEPFAR-funded Community Health Adviser volunteer with the United States Peace Corps. There, she developed winning proposals for projects in youth development and assisting HIV-positive and -impacted women in her community. She also worked in project design and management capacity building, and creating partnerships to sustainably improve health education in local higher learning institutions.
In the years prior to Ethiopia, Erin worked in Washington, DC, as a project manager with Management Systems International. From 2003-2005, Erin served with the Peace Corps in Benin as an English teacher, and then as an HIV/Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Coordinator with Population Services International (PSI), in Cotonou.
Erin has her BA in English from New York University, and her MPH (with a focus in Community Health Education) from the Paul D Coverdell Fellows Program at New Mexico State University.
