{"id":717,"date":"2014-07-30T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T07:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/?page_id=717"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:34:51","slug":"alison-roxby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/about\/who-we-are\/uw\/alison-roxby\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Roxby, MD, MSc"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associate Professor, Medicine, Global Health<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Alison Roxby MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Medicine and Global Health. She received her MD degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master\u2019s of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked in 5 different African countries to improve access to HIV care and prevent HIV transmission. Alison lived in Nairobi from 2009-2010, where she was a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow and served as the study physician for the Valacyclovir in Pregnancy trial. Alison currently holds an R01 award from NICHD titled, \u201cIncident STIs in Kenyan Girls: a prospective cohort spanning sexual debut,\" and an R21 award from NIAID titled, \u201cDMPA use and vaginal bacterial diversity among African women.\u201d Her research studies the interaction of contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections in women. She has been heavily involved in training grants to improve representation of African colleagues in research and leadership, including co-leading a Scientific Working Group and Early stage Investigator Mentoring group with the Center for AIDS Research. She also sees adult HIV patients at Madison Clinic and is the Clinic Director of the Roosevelt Virology Clinic at UWMC. In 2020, she began to work in COVID-19 studying key populations in the King County area, including residents of nursing facilities and the workers who care for them, and joined the Coronavirus Prevention Network (CoVPN) at Fred Hutch to help ensure adequate representation of key populations in Coronavirus prevention clinical trials.<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/h3>\n
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  1. Menezes, F, Chen, S, Grunenberg, N, Malahleha, M, Mngadi, K, Muyoyeta, M et al.<\/i>. AS01B<\/sub>-, MF59-, and alum-based adjuvants and HIV vaccine immunogenicity: a post-hoc<\/i> cross-protocol comparison of results from HVTN 100, 107, 120, and 702. Front Immunol. 2026;17 :1768201. doi: 10.3389\/fimmu.2026.1768201<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41909709<\/a> PubMed Central PMC13017943<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. Kipkurui, N, Owuor, G, Oketch, D, K'Oloo, A, Wanjiru, S, Agot, K et al.<\/i>. Willingness to Test for HIV and Initiate Post-exposure Prophylaxis Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Seeking Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Pharmacies in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya: A Longitudinal Study. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2026; :. doi: 10.1097\/JNC.0000000000000626<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41668246<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12994389<\/a>.<\/li>
  3. Mda, P, Mngadi, K, Zhang, B, Burnham, R, Juraska, M, Hyrien, O et al.<\/i>. Pregnancy and contraceptive use among participants of childbearing potential in the HVTN 705 HIV vaccine trial in Southern Africa. Front Reprod Health. 2025;7 :1565933. doi: 10.3389\/frph.2025.1565933<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40556953<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12185537<\/a>.<\/li>
  4. Ackerley, CG, Edupuganti, S, Yu, C, Roxby, AC, Seaton, KE, Bekker, LG et al.<\/i>. Retrospective analysis of sex-disaggregated immune responses to ALVAC-HIV and bivalent subtype C gp120\/MF59 HIV vaccines. Front Immunol. 2025;16 :1557009. doi: 10.3389\/fimmu.2025.1557009<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40438096<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12116586<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Theodore, DA, Neradilek, M, Gillespie, K, Edupuganti, S, Hinojosa, JC, Lama, JR et al.<\/i>. Brief Report: Associations Between Gender and Solicited Adverse Events After Passive Infusion of VRC01 or Placebo in HVTN 704\/HPTN 085. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2025;98 (4):340-345. doi: 10.1097\/QAI.0000000000003582<\/a>. PubMed PMID:39970314<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12375365<\/a>.<\/ol>Search PubMed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

    Current Projects<\/h3>\n
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    Incident STIs in Kenyan Girls: a prospective cohort spanning sexual debut<\/a><\/p>\n

    DMPA use and vaginal bacterial diversity among African women<\/a><\/p>\n

    Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    Completed Projects<\/h3>\n
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    Immune activation during pregnancy and contraception in HIV-infected Kenyan women<\/a><\/p>\n

    Progesterone-based contraception and immune activation in postpartum Kenyan women<\/a><\/p>\n

    Hormonal Contraception and innate immunity in the female genital tract: a prospective study<\/a><\/p>\n

    Mycoplasma genitalium and Perinatal Transmission of HIV-1<\/a><\/p>\n

    Immune activation during pregnancy and contraception in HIV-infected Kenyan women<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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