Dr. Jennifer Jao is an Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Pediatric and Adult Infectious Diseases whose research focus is HIV maternal child health. She obtained her BA in French Literature at Tulane University and MD at the Medical College of Georgia. She went on to complete a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and her Infectious Disease Fellowship along with her MPH degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Jao has led NIH- funded cohorts of pregnant women with HIV and their children both in the U.S. and Africa, and as a translational researcher, her research portfolio targets the long-term metabolic effects of in utero exposure to HIV and antiretroviral medications. She is a member of the U.S. Panel on the Treatment of HIV-Infected Pregnant Women and Prevention of Perinatal Transmission Guidelines Panel, Co-Chair of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) network P1115 protocol “Very Early Intensive Treatment of HIV-Infected Infants to Achieve HIV Remission” and Co-Chair of the Nutrition, Growth, and Metabolic Working Group in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS).