Sadiqa A.I. Kendi, MD, MPH, FAAP is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital, Associate Division Chief of Academic Affairs and Research for the Division of Emergency Medicine, and Chief Medical Officer of Safe Kids Worldwide. She is an expert in injury prevention and health equity, and is a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury Violence and Poison Prevention.

Dr. Kendi graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and received her pediatrics training from the Social Pediatrics Program at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, where she spent an additional year as chief resident. She completed her fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and her MPH training as a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.