About us

Dr. Salazar-Austin completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She spent two years as a global health corps physician with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in eSwatini before completing her fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed a Master’s degree in epidemiology, focusing on clinical trials and evidence-based synthesis, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the faculty of the division of pediatric infectious diseases in 2016.Dr. Salazar-Austin’s research focuses on combining existing and new biomedical interventions in tuberculosis with novel pediatric health care delivery models to improve implementation of TB preventive therapy in TB-exposed children and adolescents with and without HIV worldwide.