Dr. Mona Rigaud is a pediatrician and infectious disease expert with broad experience in HIV care and research expertise for many years, including key participant in NIH-sponsored clinical trials grants of perinatal transmission of HIV. For many years, Dr. Rigaud served as a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases faculty at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Chest-Tuberculosis Clinic at the Bellevue Hospital Center, as well as a faculty member involved in the teachings of medical Students, residents and fellows. Additionally, Dr. Rigaud was also section chief of pediatric infectious diseases and HIV services at St. Vincent’s Hospital Medical Center in NYC. Dr. Rigaud is presently the Chief of Pediatric Services at NYU Langone -Brooklyn, where she continues to ensure the delivery of high quality and equitable care to a diverse patient population.

Dr. Rigaud has also been Senior Medical advisor with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS initiative and has traveled extensively around the world providing technical and education to scale-up Pediatric HIV care across Africa, as well as in Haiti.

She received her M.D. degree from Universidad Anahuac Medical School in Mexico, her Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University and her Bachelor’s in Romance Languages and Certificates in Latin American and African American Studies from Princeton University. Dr. Rigaud is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, a Board Member of the George W Counts Diversity Interest Group and is widely published.