Dr Maureen Leonard obtained her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Notre Dame University in Haiti (UNDH) in 2007 and her certificate of specialization in infectious diseases in 2013.

Dr. Leonard has over 9 years of experience in the field of public health in Haiti particularly in the implementation and the supervision of HIV care and treatment programs. As Junior Faculty in the Infectious Diseases Post-graduate training program from the UNDH/UMSOM collaboration she trained 2 cohorts of clinicians on HIV clinical management.

As Clinical Advisor at the Institute of Human Virology of the University of Maryland and in the EQUIP Project, she implemented an HIV care and treatment program and provided technical assistance to sites funded by USAID. She also participated in the im-plementation of the PrEP program in Haiti and assisted the National HIV/AIDS Program in the scale-up of viral load testing nationwide, in revising the National HIV care and treatment guidelines as well as the PrEP guidelines.

Currently as Senior Clinical Advisor at ISPD, she continues to train clinicians at site level and assist the National Program through the clinical technical working group. Dr Leonard has au-thored posters and abstracts and co-authored several articles on HIV care and treatment in several sci-entific journals.