Sheena Mukkada, MD, MPH
HIGH IRI Fellow | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Dr. Mukkada is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and Assistant Member in the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. As a part of building capacity in networks of global pediatric oncology providers worldwide, she is interested in how context determines best practice. Specifically, she studies how adaptations to facilitate implementation affect clinical effectiveness outcomes. Her work spans the continuum from guideline development to implementation of best practices. As a part of this, she led the development of regional guidelines for fever management in childhood cancer patients at the national (South Africa) and regional (SubSaharan Africa and Central America) level. She is currently scaling collection of implementation and effectiveness outcomes through a Global Fever Registry which has already been successfully deployed in 6 Central American centers. This tool is also intended to evaluate how elements of context map to appropriate implementation strategies for best practices. Separately, she leads a grant funded quality improvement project in antimicrobial stewardship which has been implemented in 4 Central American sites and is interested in studying how stewardship activities can be implemented at global sites.