Anita Kabarambi, MD

Dr. Anita Kabarambi is a first-year doctoral student in the Public Health program at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She 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 at the University of London. She has over a decade of research experience working with teams in Uganda in areas of HIV epidemiology and intervention studies focusing on HIV prevention, including Oral PrEP, HIV vaccine trials, and microbicides.

She previously worked as a scientist at the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and the LSHTM Uganda Research Unit before becoming the research director of the International Center for Child Health and Development’s (ICHAD) field offices in Uganda. In this role, she oversaw the planning and implementation of multiple NIH-funded studies.Her research interests are focused on Adolescent Health, specifically HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, HPV vaccination uptake, and implementation of science methods.