Tanya Rogo is the Global Health Educator in the pediatric department. She was born in Kenya and completed her undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then graduated from the dual MD/MPH program at Tulane University. She completed pediatric residency at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases here at Brown University.

After fellowship, Tanya spent 4 years in Rwanda developing the pediatric residency program at the University of Rwanda through the Human Resources for Health partnership with the Rwanda Ministry of Health. In 2017, Tanya was the first recipient of the Velji Young African Leader Award from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Tanya has clinical experience caring for children in Kenya, Rwanda, and Botswana. She continues to teach medical students and residents in Kenya and Rwanda, while also conducting clinical research with her pediatric colleagues at the University of Rwanda. Her clinical expertise is in pediatric HIV, and she also directs antimicrobial stewardship at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.