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The Havey Institute for Global Health Seminar Series is held the first Wednesday of each month, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond. 
 
Our speaker for October is:  
Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA 
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
Co-Director, Center for Global Pediatric Health, Institute for Global Health 

"Updates in Pediatric HIV, Where Are We Now" 

Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, as well as the co-director of the Center for Global Pediatric Health, a part of the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health. She obtained her DO at the University of New England and completed a pediatrics residency at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She spent a year working as a Pediatric AIDS Corps physician for the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Malawi. She also trained in Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dirajlal-Fargo is a translational investigator, whose research portfolio focuses on complications of HIV in children and youth in the US and sub-Saharan Africa. She is the principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies in the United States and Africa to better understand the long-term health outcomes and chronic comorbidities associated with HIV in adults and children. She specializes in providing HIV care and treatment to infants, children, and adolescents both living with, and exposed to, HIV as well as all aspects of pediatric infectious diseases.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Pediatric Health.