Dr. Marcel Yotebieng has an MD from the University of Yaoundé I, as well as a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Over the past two decades, he has worked in multiple countries in Sub-Saharan Africa as a clinician, public health practitioner, and researcher. He has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grants funded by the National Institute of Health, the Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization. He has lived and taught in South Africa and the DRC, as well as the US. Dr. Marcel Yotebieng serves on several international collaborations and committees, including at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is also on the editorial board of PLOS One and Frontiers Health Services. As the lead for the pediatric work for the Central Africa International Epidemiologic Database to Evaluate AIDS, Dr. Marcel Yotebieng has been a key member of the Collaborative Initiative for Pediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) Cohort Collaboration since its inception.