Dr. Genevieve Hilaire, Fogarty Fellow, Presents at the NIH

Dr. Genevieve Hilaire is the Director of the Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Clinic at GHESKIO, the Center for Global Health’s affiliate partner site in Haiti. Dr. Hilaire is also a Masters student in the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research program at Weill Cornell Medicine. She was recently selected to be a Fogarty Clayton-Dedonder Mentors Fellow and invited to the Fogarty International Center at the NIH to present on her research and her training experience as a Fogarty Fellow. The Clayton-Dedonder Mentors Fellowship program is designed to develop leadership and mentorship skills for female researchers in Haiti as they progress in their clinical research careers. Fellows participate in bi-monthly workshops focused on presentation skills, teambuilding, conflict resolution, and negotiation, all specifically developed to address major gender-based challenges female research in global health routinely face. Dr. Hilaire presented  her research on the prevalence and risk factors for STIs among HIV-infected adolescents in Haiti and interventions she is helping to develop in Haiti to provide reproductive health education and services to high risk adolescent girls. She attributes much of her growth as a leader to impact of the Clayton-Dedonder Mentors Fellowship program, and hopes to help train, mentor and empower the next generation female Haitian leaders in global health.