Dr. Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo is a pediatric infectious disease physician at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. She worked with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative throughout Africa and has obtained her pediatric infectious disease training at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on cardiometabolic complications of HIV in children and youth in the US and sub-Saharan Africa and is supported by the National Institutes of Health and PHACS (The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study). She has received numerous awards including loan repayment award from the National Institutes of Health, and a junior investigator award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. She sits on several advisory group and board advising on global health research and training.
She is the co-director of the World Medicine Pathway at Case Western Reserve University School of medicine and associate program director of the pediatric infectious disease fellowship at Rainbow. She has continued to train students, residents and fellows both in the US and in LMICs.
