Heather Haq

Associate Professor

Email

heather.haq@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor: Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine

Chief Medical Officer: Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children's Hospital

Education

BA from McGill University: 05/2006 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; International Development Studies, Medical Anthropology

MHSc from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: 01/2008 - Baltimore, Maryland, United States; International Public Health, Social and Behavioral Interventions

MD from University of Wisconsin-Madison: 05/2013 - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine: 06/2017 - Houston, Texas, United States; Child Global Health

Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics

General Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Professional Interests

Child global health
Pediatric hospital medicine
Medical education
Global health program implementation

Selected Publications

Steenhoff AP, Crouse HL, Lukolyo H, Larson CP, Howard C, Mazhani L, Pak-Gorstein S, Niescierenko M, Musoke P, Marshall R, Soto MA, Butteris SM, Batra M. " Partnerships for Global Child Health " Pediatrics. 2017 Sep 20;
Pubmed PMID: 28931576.
Rees CA, Lukolyo H, Keating EM, Dearden KA, Luboga SA, Schutze GE, Kazembe PN. " Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low- and middle-income countries: parity or parasitism? " Trop Med Int Health. 2017 Aug 31;
Pubmed PMID: 28857354.
Ssebunya R, Wanyenze RK, Lukolyo H, Mutto M, Kisitu G, Amuge P, Maganda A, Kekitiinwa A. " Antiretroviral therapy initiation within seven days of enrolment: outcomes and time to undetectable viral load among children at an urban HIV clinic in Uganda " BMC Infect Dis. 2017 Jul ; 17 (1) : 439.
Pubmed PMID: 28629459.
Keating EM, Lukolyo H, Rees CA, Dziuban EJ, Ferris MG, Schutze GE, Marton SA. " Beyond the learning curve: length of global health electives " Int J Med Ed. 2016 Sep ; 7 : 295-6.
Pubmed PMID: 27614032.
Lukolyo H, Dean AL. " Global Is Local: July at a Teaching Hospital in Texas " Hosp Pediatr. 2017 Jul ; 7 (7) : 419-420.
Pubmed PMID: 28642228.
Rees CA, Keating EM, Lukolyo H, Danysh HE, Scheurer ME, Mehta PS, Lubega J, Slone JS; Baylor Pediatric HIV-Related Malignancy Consortium. " Mapping the Epidemiology of Kaposi Sarcoma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Among Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review " Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 Aug ; 63 (8) : 1325-31.
Pubmed PMID: 27082516.
Lukolyo H, Rees CA, Keating EM, Swamy P, Schutze GE, Marton S, Turner TL. " Perceptions and Expectations of Host Country Preceptors of Short-Term Learners at Four Clinical Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa " Acad Pediatr. 2016 May ; 16 (4) : 387-93.
Pubmed PMID: 26581780.
St Clair NE, Pitt MB, Bakeera-Kitaka S, McCall N, Lukolyo H, Arnold LD, Audcent T, Batra M, Chan K, Jacquet GA, Schutze GE, Butteris S; Global Health Task Force of the American Board of Pediatrics. " Global health: Preparation for working in resource-limited settings. " Pediatrics. 2017 Nov ; 140 (5)
Pubmed PMID: 29074610.
Ssebunya RN, Wanyenze RK, Namale L, Lukolyo H, Kisitu GP, Nahirya-Ntege P, Kekitiinwa A. " Prevalence and correlates of HIV testing among adolescents 10-19 years in a post-conflict pastoralist community of Karamoja region, Uganda " BMC Public Health. 2018 ; 18 : 612.
Haq H, Barnes A, Batra M, Condurache T, Pitt MB, Robison JA, Schubert C, St Clair N, Uwemedimo O, Watts J, Russ CM.. " Defining Global Health Tracks for Pediatric Residencies. " Pediatrics. 2019 Jul ; 144 (1) : e20183860.
Pubmed PMID: 31213520.
Keating EM, Haq H, Rees CA, Dearden KA, Luboga SA, Schutze GE, Kazembe PN.. " Global Disparities Between Pediatric Publications and Disease Burden From 2006 to 2015 " Glob Pediatr Health. 2019 Feb ; 25 (6) : 2333794X19831298.
Pubmed PMID: 30828594.
Umphrey L, Patel A, Alayyan A, Haq HA, Suchdev PS, Schonfeld D, Goldhagen J, Section on Global Health. " The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children and Adolescents: Policy Statement " Pediatr. 2026 ; 157 (3) : e2025075748.
Pubmed PMID: 41698397.