She is the Director of the Fogarty AIDS International Training in Research program at UIC, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has an MA and PhD in Sociology, both from Northwestern University. She is also the Director for the Social and Behavioral Science Core of the Chicago Development Center for AIDS research. Dr. Levy began teaching at UIC in 1981 and has led the Fogarty program since 2000.