Rachel N. Caskey MD, MAPP, FACP, FAAP

Dr. Rachel Caskey is board-certified in both pediatrics and internal medicine and provides primary care for all ages. Dr. Caskey is a health services researcher with an interest in improving national vaccination efforts. She has an appointment at the UIC School of Public Health and is a member of the UIC Cancer Center where she collaborates on efforts to improve HPV vaccination rates to reduce the incidence of HPV-related cancers.

Her recent projects include employing principles of behavioral economics to improve adolescent HPV vaccination; studying alternate HPV vaccine delivery mechanisms (including school-located delivery) to improve adolescent vaccination and exploring ways to improve the use of effective contraception among postpartum women. She is on the City of Chicago HPV Prevention Advisory Committee and works with the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics on vaccine promotion efforts. Dr. Caskey speaks nationally about adolescent health and vaccine promotion. In addition, she is a co-founder of Health4Chicago, a school-based health promotion and vaccine administration program for students in Chicago.