The 10th symposium on children and adolescents with perinatal HIV exposure Session 3 - Research to inform the care agenda for children and adolescents with perinatal HIV exposure

Dr. Ezeamama is clinical epidemiologist and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University. Her goal is to support holistic biopsychosocial interventions to mitigate morbidity in vulnerable populations.

Helena Nangombe is the founder of the Young Women Empowerment Network, a grassroots organization established in 2013 that works to improve the well-being and living conditions of adolescent girls and young women living with and at risk of HIV in rural North Namibia.

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Fatima Kakkar is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and clinician-researcher in congenital infectious at Sainte-Justine University Health Center in Montreal, Canada, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Montreal.

Dr. Renata Arrington Sanders is currently the Division Chief of the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine. Prior to Dr. Sanders assuming the role of Division Chief, Dr. Sanders was an Associate Professor in the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with joint appointments in Infectious Diseases, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Departments of Epidemiology and Health, Behavior and Society. Dr. Sanders completed a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University, a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health and Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Sanders completed her Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Sanders research interests includes: gender affirming care, caring for sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY), optimizing adolescent and young adult sexual health, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention interventions. Dr. Sanders has utilized her knowledge and expertise to produce 87 original research articles, 12 peer review articles and has served as a co-author and/contributor to a plethora of book chapters and education materials. She is a recent graduate of the Transform Program for the Association of American Medical College. She served on the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee (CHAC) on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention & Treatment from 2023-2025 and currently is a Scientific Member on the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents —a working group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council. She is the first adolescent-medicine trained physician to serve on the International AIDS Society Governing Council; and serves on the Scholarship Program, Stigma Advisory Board and Abstract Review Committees; Collaborative Initiative for Pediatric HIV Education and Research; the Research Review Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics, American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research, and Board of Directors of SIECUS, Sex Ed for Social Change, and American Sexual Health Association. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Health have funded her work to develop intersectional interventions for SGDY (R01 DA043089, R01 DA059022).

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Dr. Sonia Lee is the Branch Chief of the Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She primarily works with investigators on adolescent HIV prevention and treatment to design and implement behavioral studies and behavioral components of biomedical studies in youth living with HIV or at risk for HIV. Her grant portfolio also includes global research on adolescent HIV prevention and treatment, mobile health for HIV/AIDS, and assessment of neurodevelopmental outcomes. Prior to joining NICHD in 2006, Dr. Lee was a psychologist on the Special Immunology Service at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., dealing with assessment and care of children, adolescents, and families living with HIV.