Speaker: Dr. Alison Roxby, MD, MSc

Title: Kenyan young women at the start of their sexual lives, BV and STIs in a prospective cohort

Alison Roxby MD, MSc is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Medicine and Global Health. She received her MD degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked in 5 different African countries to improve access to HIV care. Dr. Roxby lived in Nairobi from 2009-2010, where she was a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow. Dr. Roxby currently holds an R01 award from NICHD “Incident STIs in Kenyan Girls: a prospective cohort spanning sexual debut’, and an R21 award from NIAID “DMPA use and vaginal bacterial diversity among African women.” She studies the interaction of contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections in women. She has been heavily involved in training grants to improve representation of African colleagues in research and leadership. She also sees adult HIV patients at Madison Clinic and is the Clinic Director of the UWMC Roosevelt Virology Clinic.