| Marita K. Murrman, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She teaches the advanced level course in designing evidence-based community interventions to second year MPH students. Prior to her current position, Dr. Murrman was Director for Professional Education at the CDC funded Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis (TB) Center at Harlem Hospital. While there, she and Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr designed, implemented and evaluated a two-year TB/HIV training program for medical residents and attending physicians, many of whom were International Medical Graduates. As a member of the Center’s community outreach team, Dr. Murrman collaborated on the design of education and training programs for health care workers in drug and alcohol treatment centers throughout the Harlem community. She was instrumental in the development of adherence interventions for two ongoing NIH-funded studies conducted at Harlem Hospital Center including the Harlem Adherence with Treatment Study (HATS) and the Tuberculosis Partnership Alliance Study ( TAPAS). The former is a study assessing a peer-based intervention on adherence with antiretroviral therapy and the latter is a study assessing an adherence intervention for the treatment of latent TB infection.
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Dr. Murrman developed the theoretical frameworks for the interventions as well as the process of operationalizing them in a clinical trial setting. Currently, Dr. Murrman is the principal investigator for a three-year national training grant supported by the CDC entitled Eliminating Health Disparities Through Research and Education Opportunities for Preventive Medicine Residents and Public Health Graduate Students. She is also the principal investigator on another recently funded five-year training grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) entitled the New York and New Jersey Public Health Training Center. In addition, Dr. Murrman, and other investigators from the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery (SDOS) designed (and were funded by HRSA) to establish an integrated on-site comprehensive primary oral health care clinic in Harlem to engage multiply diagnosed people with HIV/AIDS in care and to create and implement an innovative Service Learning curriculum in HIV/AIDS care for post and pre-doctoral students of the SDOS. In relation to the NIH Collaborative AIDS Program of Research in South Africa initiative, Dr. Murrman helped design the theoretical framework for the adherence component of the START study.
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