Shanna-Kaye Igbinoba

Shanna-Kaye Igbinoba is a research clinician/nurse practitioner at the Adolescent & Young Adult Research (AYAR) at the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center. In this role, she recruits, and enrolls, vulnerable minority LGBTQIA+ youth participants who are at increased risk for HIV acquisition, specifically transgender/non-binary individuals and African American/ Black and Latinx individuals into HIV prevention research studies. She aims to decrease HIV transmission in this population by promoting health education, improving medical accessibility, and engagement through preventive healthcare research. In addition to her clinical research duties at the CORE Center, Shanna-Kaye manages the health care for individuals living with HIV, provides STI screenings, PrEP, PEP services, and collaborates with local organizations focused on LGTBQIA+ youths.

The Adolescent & Young Adult Research (AYAR) at the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center is a research organization committed to providing accessible, quality, and culturally sensitive HIV-related prevention research, clinical trials, and observational study opportunities to adolescents and young adults from the LGBTQIA+ community, with a focus on minority groups such as African American and Latino individuals who are at increased risk for HIV infection. Additionally, AYAR participates with the Youth Advisory Board (YAB), which consists of adolescents and young adults from the community, to provide feedback about their thoughts and experiences related to a variety of topics, such as HIV prevention, current events affecting their communities, and strategies to engage the youth and young people in research and health care.