Monthly Seminar Series

Associate Director for AIDS Research and
Director, Office of AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health

Geri R. Donenberg, Ph.D., is the Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Working in close collaboration with NIH Institutes and Centers, Dr. Donenberg leads OAR in coordinating the NIH HIV research program to achieve pandemic control, prevent new transmissions, and improve the health of people with HIV. 

Dr. Donenberg joined OAR from the University of Illinois Chicago, where she served as Associate Dean of Research in the School of Public Health and Chair of Scholarly Activities in the Department of Medicine. She also founded and directed the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science in Health Disparities and the Healthy Youths Program. 

A clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health and HIV prevention, Dr. Donenberg brings more than 25 years of HIV research experience to NIH, focused on addressing health disparities, achieving global impact, and exploring the structural determinants of health. Her scholarship has emphasized understanding factors that influence HIV transmission among adolescents and young adults and designing specially targeted interventions that address key comorbidities at each stage of the HIV prevention and care continuum. Her research has consistently prioritized including many populations affected by HIV.

Dr. Donenberg earned her B.A. in psychology and political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She completed her psychology internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa.