Ben Bellows is a PhD student in reproductive health epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley and working with the Bay Area International Group on sustainable reproductive health services delivery in developing economies.

Ben served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador (1997-2000) where he was an animal husbandry specialist in the community of Chiguinda, province of Morona-Santiago near Cuenca.  In his final 18 months of service, he also worked in Quito as a program coordinator establishing new sites with community leaders and supporting PCVs in the field.  After service in Ecuador, Ben took a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001-2003) in the Division of International Health and Global AIDS Program developing training programs for HIV counseling and testing in Atlanta and at sites in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Namibia.  He also consulted with the Namibian Ministry of Health to develop the national policy and guidelines on HIV counseling and testing (2003).

Ben received his Masters in Public Health May 2004 and continues at UC Berkeley as a Bixby doctoral fellow in the Division of Epidemiology.