Dr. Yaeger is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He attended medical school at the University at Buffalo’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and trained in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following a chief residency, Dr. Yaeger completed a Primary Care Research Fellowship and Master’s in Public Health; also at the University of Wisconsin. His experiences growing up in and working in low-resourced settings have shaped his research, focused on the intersection of child health equity and clinical decision-making. He uses population data, community-based participatory research principles, and mixed methods approaches to identify and understand child health disparities. By doing so, Dr. Yaeger and his team can develop, test, refine, and implement targeted interventions to reduce these disparities. For this award, Dr. Yaeger and his team seek to investigate the extent to which population-level racial disparities exist in pediatric severe sepsis and septic shock outcomes and to understand how medical mistrust may influence differences in appraisal and help-seeking behaviors by race.