Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM is the Derrol Dawkins MD Endowed Chair in Adolescent Medicine; Division Director for Adolescent Medicine; Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Community Engagement; and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama. Her areas of research, community engagement, and policy and program development expertise focus on adolescent health and well-being, sexual and reproductive health, risk behaviors and resiliency, global health, disaster and pandemic preparedness, immunizations, and violence and firearm injury prevention. As a vaccine scientist, Dr. Coyne-Beasley was appointed by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices where she was engaged in the development of vaccine recommendations and policies for the United States. Dr. Coyne-Beasley is also a Past-President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the President-Elect of the American Pediatric Society. She is the Principal Investigator of the UAB PPN Hub Site and UAB Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) program.