Email

alexander.kay@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics-Global Immigrant Health
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

BA from Cornell University

Ithaca, New York United States

MD from University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Farmington, Connecticut United States

Residency at Maine Medical Center

Portland, Maine United States

Fellowship at Stanford University

Stanford, California United States

Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine

American Board of Pediatrics,

Certificate of Knowledge

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

AAP: Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Professional Interests

• Pediatric Tuberculosis
• Pediatric HIV
• Global Health

Professional Statement

In my role as Associate Director of the Global TB Program I am based full time in Mbabane, eSwatini and oversee clinical care at the TB Centre of Excellence, as well as the Global TB Program's clinical, translational and operational research programs. I have worked previously as a BIPAI physician in Lesotho and continue to work closely with BIPAI in eSwatini. My current work focuses on evaluating a novel stool-based diagnostic for tuberculosis, assessing barriers to isoniazid preventive therapy use, and performing operational research to support TB active case finding. The TB Centre of Excellence is a pediatric referral center in eSwatini for complicated cases of childhood TB. We collaborate frequently with the eSwatini National TB Control Program in efforts to advance the clinical care of children with TB and TB/HIV in eSwatini.