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DESCRIPTION:The Seminars in Epidemiology organized by the Department of Epi
 demiology\, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at the McGill School of 
 Population and Global Health is a self-approved Group Learning Activity (S
 ection 1) as defined by the maintenance of certification program of the Ro
 yal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Physicians requiring acc
 reditation\, please complete the Evaluation Form and send to admincoord.eb
 oh [at] mcgill.ca\n\nNandita Perumal\, PhD\n\nAssistant Professor of Epide
 miology\n	Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\n	Arnold School of Pu
 blic Health | University of South Carolina\n\nWHEN: Monday\, November 25\,
  2024\, from 4 to 5 p.m.\n	WHERE: Hybrid | SPGH\, 2001 McGill College\, Rm 
 1140 &\n	5252 boul. de Maisonneuve - 3rd floor\, Kitchen | Zoom\n	Note: Nand
 ita Perumal will be presenting In-Person at the SPGH\n\nAbstract\n\nIn 201
 5\, the World Health Organization recommended that all pregnant women with
  HIV initiate lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent
  mother-to-child transmission and sexual transmission of HIV. With increas
 ing availability and administration of ART\, approximately 14 million chil
 dren are estimated to be exposed to HIV but uninfected globally. This talk
  will present research from an observational cohort of HIV-exposed but uni
 nfected children in Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania\, and leverage the natural he
 terogeneity in the timing of ART initiation during pregnancy to evaluate t
 he implications for infant and child outcomes.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nA
 t the completion of this talk\, attendees will be able to:\n\n\n	Understand
  the epidemiology of HIV-exposure in pregnancy and among young children in
  low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)\;\n	Understand the application of
  epidemiologic methods for evaluating long-term consequences in young chil
 dren\;\n	Recognize the strengths and limitations of contexts in which studi
 es are conducted and contexts where the burden is high.\n\n\nSpeaker Bio\n
 \nNandita Perumal is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiol
 ogy and Biostatistics at the University of South Carolina. Her research re
 sponds to the persistent burden of adverse maternal and newborn perinatal 
 outcomes and suboptimal growth and neurodevelopment in young children thro
 ugh three main foci: (i) investigating the causes and consequences of adve
 rse outcomes in the perinatal period\; (ii) testing interventions in nutri
 tion as a lever to prevent adverse perinatal outcomes and improve nutritio
 nal deficits in the most vulnerable children\, as a means of improving lon
 g-term outcomes\; and (iii) building research capacity through equitable p
 artnerships\, with a focus on rigorous methods and diversity of scientific
  perspectives. She holds an MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the Universit
 y of Toronto\, a BSc in Human Nutrition from McGill University\, and compl
 eted her postdoctoral training in the Department of Global Health and Popu
 lation at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health\, where she is a Vis
 iting Scientist.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Prenatal Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation and Growth and
  Developmental Outcomes Among HIV-Exposed\, Uninfected Young Children in T
 anzania
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/channels/event/prenatal-timing-a
 ntiretroviral-therapy-initiation-and-growth-and-developmental-outcomes-amo
 ng-hiv-360971
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