Celine Gounder, M.D., ScM - CREATE Director for Delivery

Dr. Gounder received her BA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, her ScM in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and her MD from the University of Washington.

Dr. Gounder was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University.

She has over a decade of experience collaborating with Dr. Chaisson on HIV and TB in South Africa and Brazil. Her research in South Africa and Brazil has focused on TB screening, new diagnostic tests for TB, drug-drug interactions among persons with TB/HIV co-infection, TB prophylaxis, infection control for TB and out-patient management of MDR-TB. Her studies have been conducted among HIV-infected and -uninfected persons, including pregnant women and infants. She has also studied latent TB infection among children in New York City.

Dr. Gounder is a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research and Director for Delivery for the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE). Dr. Gounder is now collaborating with local implementers to scale up and conduct implementation research on TB case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy in Malawi, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Dr. Gounder has an outpatient HIV practice in the Moore Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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