Hilary Spindler, MPH
Program Director
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

From 2014 - 2020, Hilary managed a large-scale program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Bihar, India at UCSF Global Health Sciences in collaboration with PRONTO International, which focused on improving quality of obstetric and neonatal care through mentoring and simulation training.

From 2006 - 2014, Hilary was a data analyst at UCSF Global Health Sciences, where her work focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, in collaboration with partners at the CDC. Hilary designed and led dozens of technical training workshops and studies throughout PEPFAR countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, Malawi, Cote d'Ivoire, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, India, Antigua and others. Hilary's expertise was in using statistical methods to translate large, disparate sets of data for in-country decision making purposes.

Prior to that, Hilary was an epidemiologist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health working in the AIDS Office.

• Simulation and team training embedded nurse mentoring programme and improvement in intrapartum and newborn care in a low-resource setting in Bihar, India.
  Journal of global health 2020 Ghosh R, Spindler H, Dyer J, Christmas A, Cohen SR, Das A, Sonthalia S, Mahapatra T, Gore A, Shah H, Walker DM
• Simulation and team training embedded nurse mentoring programme and improvement in intrapartum and newborn care in a low-resource setting in Bihar, India.
  Journal of Global Health 2020 Rakesh Ghosh, Hilary Spindler, Jessica Dyer, Amelia Christmas, Susanna R Cohen, Aritra Das, Sunil Sonthalia, Tanmay Mahapatra, Aboli Gore, Hemant Shah, Dilys M Walker
• Will Coronavirus Disease 2019 Become Seasonal?
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2020 Kanzawa M, Spindler H, Anglemyer A, Rutherford GW
• Cohort study of neonatal resuscitation skill retention in frontline healthcare facilities in Bihar, India, after PRONTO simulation training.
  BMJ paediatrics open 2020 Higgins BV, Medvedev MM, Spindler H, Ghosh R, Longkumer O, Cohen SR, Das A, Gore A, Mahapatra T, Walker DM
• Training and evaluating simulation debriefers in low-resource settings: lessons learned from Bihar, India.
  BMC medical education 2020 Raney JH, Medvedev MM, Cohen SR, Spindler H, Ghosh R, Christmas A, Das A, Gore A, Mahapatra T, Walker D
• Diagnosis and management of postpartum hemorrhage and intrapartum asphyxia in a quality improvement initiative using nurse-mentoring and simulation in Bihar, India.
  PloS one 2019 Ghosh R, Spindler H, Morgan MC, Cohen SR, Begum N, Gore A, Mahapatra T, Walker DM
• Does teamwork and communication improve with simulation training? An evaluation of simulation training videos in Bihar, India.
  East African journal of applied health monitoring and evaluation 2019 JESSICA D DYER, MELISSA C MORGAN, SUSANNA R COHEN, RAKESH GHOSH, JULIA RANEY, HILARY SPINDLER, TANMAY MAHAPATRA6, AMELIA CHRISTMAS, DILYS M WALKER
• Simulation-enhanced nurse mentoring to improve preeclampsia and eclampsia care: an education intervention study in Bihar, India.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2019 Raney JH, Morgan MC, Christmas A, Sterling M, Spindler H, Ghosh R, Gore A, Mahapatra T, Walker DM
• Clinical cascades as a novel way to assess physical readiness of facilities for the care of small and sick neonates in Kenya and Uganda.
  PloS one 2018 Morgan MC, Spindler H, Nambuya H, Nalwa GM, Namazzi G, Waiswa P, Otieno P, Cranmer J, Walker DM
• The power of practice: simulation training improving the quality of neonatal resuscitation skills in Bihar, India.
  BMC pediatrics 2018 Vail B, Morgan MC, Spindler H, Christmas A, Cohen SR, Walker DM
• Video Monitoring a Simulation-Based Quality Improvement Program in Bihar, India.
  Clinical simulation in nursing 2018 Dyer J, Spindler H, Christmas A, Shah MB, Morgan M, Cohen SR, Sterne J, Mahapatra T, Walker D
• Tracking and debriefing birth data at scale: A mobile phone application to improve obstetric and neonatal care in Bihar, India.
  Nursing open 2018 Spindler H, Dyer J, Bagchi K, Ranjan V, Christmas A, Cohen SR, Sterling M, Shah MB, Das A, Mahapatra T, Walker D
• Choosing a simulation assessment tool:.
  East African journal of applied health monitoring and evaluation 2018 HILARY SPINDLER, JULIA RANEY, SUSANNA COHEN, RAKESH GHOSH, JESSICA DYER, AMELIA CHRISTMAS, MANJU SIJU, RENU SHARMA, ROHIT SRIVASTAVA, ARITRA DAS, ABOLI GORE, PRAMOD SAH, SUNIL SONTHALIA, TANMAY …
• Care of the mother-infant dyad: a novel approach to conducting and evaluating neonatal resuscitation simulation training in Bihar, India.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2017 Vail B, Spindler H, Morgan MC, Cohen SR, Christmas A, Sah P, Shah MB, Das A, Walker DM
• Video Analysis System as a Tool to Improve the Quality of Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care through Simulation Training in Bihar, India.
  Annals of Global Health 2017 A.T. Janjua, J. Dyer, H. Spindler, J. Sterne, S. Cohen, M. Morgan, A. Christmas, M. Bharat Shah, A. Das, D.D. Walker
• Building Capacity for Data-Driven Decision Making in African HIV Testing Programs: Field Perspectives on Data Use Workshops.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2016 Courtenay-Quirk C, Spindler H, Leidich A, Bachanas P
• A mobile phone application to collect real-time live witnessed birth data for rapid provider debriefing to drive quality improvement for maternal and newborn health in Bihar, India.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 H. Spindler, J. Dyer, A. Christmas, A. Janjua, H. Frank, M. Greenway, D. Walker
• Improving quality of obstetric and neonatal care through midwife mentoring and simulation training in Bihar, India: mentor knowledge assessments.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 A. Romo, M. Morgan, A. Christmas, A. Jacob, H. Frank, J. Dyer, H. Spindler, D. Walker
• Slowing of the HIV epidemic in Ukraine: evidence from case reporting and key population surveys, 2005-2012.
  PloS one 2014 Vitek CR, Cakalo JI, Kruglov YV, Dumchev KV, Salyuk TO, Božicevic I, Baughman AL, Spindler HH, Martsynovska VA, Kobyshcha YV, Abdul-Quader AS, Rutherford GW
• Underreporting of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in the Ukraine.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2014 Spindler H, Salyuk T, Vitek C, Rutherford G
• Public health triangulation: approach and application to synthesizing data to understand national and local HIV epidemics.
  BMC public health 2010 Rutherford GW, McFarland W, Spindler H, White K, Patel SV, Aberle-Grasse J, Sabin K, Smith N, Taché S, Calleja-Garcia JM, Stoneburner RL
• Viagra, methamphetamine, and HIV risk: results from a probability sample of MSM, San Francisco.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2007 Spindler HH, Scheer S, Chen SY, Klausner JD, Katz MH, Valleroy LA, Schwarcz SK
• Assessing representativeness of sampling methods for reaching men who have sex with men: a direct comparison of results obtained from convenience and probability samples.
  AIDS and behavior 2007 Schwarcz S, Spindler H, Scheer S, Valleroy L, Lansky A