Ken Kitayama (Pre-Doctoral; 2016-17)
Ken Kitayama (Pre-Doctoral; Peru) is a student at UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Lima, Peru site. He is completing a systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of syphilis infection in the Americas and is a MPH student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Research Area:
Systematic review of the epidemiology of syphilis among MSM and TW in North and South America.
Review of HIV and ocular syphilis infection.
Publications:
Kitayama et al., "Syphilis in the Americas: A Protocol for a Systematic Review of Syphilis Prevalence and Incidence in Four High-Risk Groups, 1980-2016" Systematic Reviews (2017) 6(1): 195.
Applications for the 2026-27 Fellowship class are now being accepted and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.