Viani Picchetti

Dr. Viani (Ramirez) Picchetti has over 15 years of combined experience working with domestic and international public health. Throughout her career, Dr. Picchetti has worked with infectious diseases (dengue, STIs, HIV, influenza, covid-19, and mpox), chronic diseases (asthma, obesity, and cancer), and prevention of violence against children worldwide. Her experience includes surveillance and epidemiology; field epidemiology; outbreak response; survey design and implementation; complex statistical analysis; research ethics; and teaching diverse students in both domestic and international settings. She is skilled in statistical analysis software like SAS, STATA, SUDAAN, and SPSS, and has worked with tools like RedCap, ArcGIS, StatTransfer, and Access. In addition, Dr. Picchetti has written comprehensive reports, presented research results at professional conferences, published peer-reviewed manuscripts, and serves as peer-reviewer for scientific journals like The Lancet, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Injury Prevention.

Most recently, Dr. Picchetti served as Associate Chief of Science at the CDC-Atlanta, where she worked in the Division of Global HIV and TB with different projects to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child, provide HIV testing and treatment to children and adolescents, and support orphaned and vulnerable children living with HIV worldwide. She currently serves as Contributing Faculty for the PhD in Public Health Program at Walden University. Dr. Picchetti is passionate about humanitarian work and volunteers in different organizations helping immigrant and refugee communities in Georgia.

Dr. Picchetti holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Microbiology from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, an MPH from the Ponce Health Sciences University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from Walden University.

Education

PhD, Walden University

MPH, Ponce Health Sciences University

BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez