Renata Arrington Sanders MD, MPH, ScM
Renata Arrington Sanders (she/her) is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and is the division chief of the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at CHOP. She is also a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to Dr. Sanders assuming the role of Division Chief at CHOP, Dr. Sanders was an associate professor in the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with joint appointments in Infectious Diseases, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Departments of Epidemiology and Health, Behavior and Society.
Dr. Sanders' research interests focuses on expanding access to gender affirming care, caring for sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY), and optimizing adolescent and young adult sexual health, HIV/AIDS treatment, and prevention interventions.
She serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advisory Committee (CHAC) on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention & Treatment; the International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council and the Scholarship Program, Stigma Advisory Board, Abstract Review and Collaborative Initiative for Pediatric HIV Education and Research of the IAS; the Research Review Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics; the Board of Directors of Sex Ed for Social Change (SEICUS); and American Sexual Health Association. The CDC and the National Institute of Health fund her work to develop intersectional interventions for SGDY (R01 DA043089, R01 DA059022).