Research
Learn more about the current and past research conducted at the Center for Global Health Pediatrics.
Current Programs
ENRICH+: Enhancing Novel Research for Inflammation and Cognitive Health among Adolescents
Project Period: September 2024 to May 2029
The role of Trained Immunity and Mitochondrial dysfunction on Innate immunity in children and adolescents aGing with PHIV (TIMING-PHIV)
Project Period: March 2022 to February 2027
Intensive Combination Approach to Rollback the HIV Epidemic in Nigerian Youth (iCARE) Plus Effectiveness / Implementation Hybrid Study
The iCARE Plus study will conduct a hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial utilizing an EPIS (Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment) framework in youth aged 15-in HIV “hotspots” across Nigeria’s six geopolitically distinct zones. (NICHD, Garofalo)
Project Period: July 2023 to June 2028
Following Longitudinal Outcomes to Understand, Report, Intervene and Sustain Health of Infants, Children and Adolescents who are HIV Exposed Uninfected (FLOURISH)
PI: Kathleen Powis, MD, Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, Joseph Makhema
Project Period: August 2020 to June 2025
Obesogenic origins of maternal and child metabolic health involving dolutegravir (ORCHID)
PI: Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, Elaine Abrams, MD, Landon Myer, MD
Project Period: September 2020 to June 2025
Understanding Inflammatory and Metabolic Pathways of Myocardial and Vascular Dysfunction in South African Youth Living with Perinatal HIV
PI: Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, Heather Zar
Project Period: May 2020 to April 2025
IMPAACT Operations Co-Chair for P1115 Protocol (Very Early Intensive Treatment of HIV-Infected Infants to Achieve HIV Remission: A Phase I/II Proof of Concept Study), Leadership
PIs: Sharon Nachman, MD, and Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH
Adapting and testing a combination peer navigation and mHealth intervention to enhance treatment engagement and viral suppression among sexual and gender minority youth in Nigeria
Project Period: 2023-2026
Trauma Care at Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza, Tanzania
Project Period: October 2022 to September 2024
Past Programs
Building Resources to Assess Impaired Neurocognition in Children with HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (BRAIN Child in LMICs)
Project Period: August 2021 to July 2024