Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell and Director of Research at GHESKIO. Based in Haiti, Dr. Rouzier’s research expertise is in HIV and hypertension (HTN) among adolescents. Dr. Rouzier is the recipient of the NHLBI Diversity Supplement to investigate early-onset HTN among adolescents and young adults in Haiti and the Haiti Principal Investigator of the NIAID-funded CCASAnet project to evaluate non-communicable diseases (NCD) among adolescents in the Caribbean and Latin American region. She has also led the scale up of maternal-child and adolescent clinical research at GHESKIO as the study coordinator and protocol chair for several NIAID International Maternal, Pediatric, and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trails Network (IMPAACT) trials. She currently supervises all research staff in the GHESKIO NCD Unit. Dr. Rouzier also serves as a mentor to trainees interested in early-onset chronic diseases, early-life exposures, and research on the intersection of chronic and communicable diseases.