DaJaneil S. McCree

Biography

DaJaneil McCree currently serves as a NIH-supported postdoctoral trainee and Program Director of a Pilot trial of a cognitive-behavioral intervention program to increase HIV care engagement and reduce Intimate Partner Violence among Black women living with HIV in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, working with Dr. Kamila Alexander. As an early-career investigator, Dr. McCree’s program of research examines the potentially discriminatory health care experiences impacting the health of Black queer young cisgender women. She studies how these Black women encounter health care experience inequities and how they might be attributed to delays in care and poor health outcomes, to include risk for HIV. Her current professional and research training through this postdoctoral fellowship focuses on the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) on the physical, sexual, and psychological wellbeing of Black women living with HIV in the Baltimore Metropolitan area. The program aims to support Black women living with HIV in staying healthy and safe in their intimate relationships and developing strategies to keep up with their physical health. This research training in violence and HIV among minority groups in Baltimore, MD has advanced her knowledge and expertise in minority health, health disparities, and infectious disease research and provides support, mentoring, and experience to achieve her long-term career goals of becoming and HIV scholar and faculty member at a higher education institution.

Mentor
Kamila Alexander