Sadiqa Kendi

Sadiqa A.I. Kendi, MD, MPH, FAAP, CPST is an award winning physician scientist with expertise in injury prevention and health equity. Dr. Kendi serves as a pediatric emergency medicine physician and Associate Division Chief of Academic Affairs and Research for the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Hospital, and Chief Medical Officer of Safe Kids Worldwide. Dr. Kendi graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and received her pediatrics training from the Social Pediatrics Program at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, where she spent an additional year as chief resident. She completed her fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and her MPH training as a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow with a focus on Environmental Challenges at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Kendi is a certified child passenger safety technician and a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury Violence and Poison Prevention.