Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Kate Powis, MD, MPH, MBA is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School with clinical appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kate’s research is focused on etiologies underlying health disparities of HIV-exposed uninfected infants and children in resource-limited settings and she is conducting clinical trials to identify feasible mechanisms to mitigate disparities. She is currently following a cohort of HIV-exposed uninfected infants in Botswana to explore the evolution of gut microbiome in the first year of life and determine whether differences in the evolution of gut microbiome between HIV-exposed uninfected infants and HIV-unexposed infants results in differences in immune system development and functioning. In a Kenya-based study, she is exploring whether a multi-sectoral intervention targeting food insecurity in HIV-affected households can improve health, growth, and neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed
New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected
Jan 14, 2020 00:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In many countries with a high HIV prevalence, at least 95% of children born to mothers living with HIV remain HIV-uninfected. This is due to the success of wide-scale provision of antiretroviral therapy to mothers with HIV...
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