CFAR Presentations

NIMH funding on PrEP use Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa

NIMH funding on PrEP use Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on October 07, 2019

Speaker(s): Dr. Susannah Allison

Link to Online Presentation.

Dr. Allison is a Program Officer at the National Institute of Mental Health within the Division of AIDS Research. She oversees a portfolio of research focused on the prevention of HIV infection among infants, children, and adolescents as well as research to enhance health outcomes among youth living with HIV. She is also the training director for the division. Prior to working at NIMH, Dr. Allison worked with children and families infected and affected by HIV in Baltimore, Miami, and Washington, DC.  She completed her doctorate at George Washington University where she received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology with an emphasis in child health psychology.