Anita Kabarambi, MBChB, MSc

Dr. Anita Kabarambi is a medical doctor by training with a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery(MBchB) from Makerere university and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under the University of London. She has more than a decade of research experience working with research teams in Uganda  in areas of HIV epidemiology and intervention studies focused on HIV prevention-Oral PrEP, HIV vaccine trials and microbicides.

She previously worked as a scientist at the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM,Uganda Research Unit  prior to joining Washington University in St. Louis’ International Center for Child Health and Development’s (ICHAD) field offices in Uganda where she worked as a Research director. In that capacity, she led the planning and implementation of several NIH-funded studies

She is now a first-year doctoral student in public health at the Brown School under Washington University in St. Louis.

Her research interests are focused on adolescent health, specifically HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, HPV vaccination uptake, and implementation science methods. Previously, she conducted research on HPV vaccine uptake among adolescent girls and young women living with HIV in central Uganda.