Biography

Dr. Carolyn Bolton Moore is a South African clinician who has lived and worked in Zambia since 2004. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand, School of Medicine in Johannesburg in 1996. She completed her Masters’ degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2011.

Dr. Bolton Moore started her research career at the PHRU at Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa in 2002, where she worked on phase I/II clinical trials in children living with HIV. In 2004, she joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but worked full time at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) as the Paediatric Technical Advisor. In 2011, she was promoted to Chief Medical Officer at CIDRZ, a position she still holds today. CIDRZ is the largest local health NGO in Zambia and provides critical evidence-based research and support to the Zambian Ministry of Health. She holds an Associate Professor position at UAB. As CMO, she has worked for several years providing direct clinical patient care to adults and children living with HIV and has led multiple research studies aimed at improving sexual and reproductive outcomes amongst adolescents in Zambia.

Dr. Bolton Moore currently serves as the co-chair of MOCHA (IMPAACT 2017) - the first clinical trial of long-acting antiretrovirals in adolescents living with HIV. In addition to her executive management role as the CMO at CIDRZ, Dr. Bolton Moore is a Co-Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded study focused on improving communication between AGYW and their mothers/ mother figures in Zambia (ZAIMARA). The overall aim of this study is to improve SRH outcomes in this population.

Dr. Bolton Moore has special research interests in HIV implementation research, specifically research focused on improving access and outcomes of adolescents and children in ART care and treatment programs in Zambia and the region.