Rachel Vreeman is a pediatrician and researcher who specializes in the improving care for children and adolescents living with HIV in resource-limited settings. She is the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Health System Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as well as a Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Vreeman is also the Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai. Dr. Vreeman chairs the Pediatric Working Group for the Global IeDEA (International Epidemiologic Databases Evaluating AIDS) consortium, a cohort with patient data for more than one million people living with HIV worldwide and funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Over the last decade, Dr. Vreeman’s research has focused on supporting children and adolescents’ adherence to HIV therapy, disclosure of HIV status, the durability of antiretroviral therapy regimens among children, and mental health and stigma challenges for children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of her research takes place with the AMPATH program in Kenya, an academic care system that treats more than 15,000 children and adolescents living with HIV.
