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Dr. Amita Gupta, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) CCGHE, is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at JHU. Born to Indian parents, she grew up in the US, England and France. She completed her undergraduate education at Massachusetts Institute Technology, medical degree at Harvard Medical School, and primary care and internal medicine training at San Francisco General Hospital-University of California San Francisco. She was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer focusing on global foodborne and diarrheal diseases epidemiology at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before completing an infectious diseases fellowship at JHU.

During her years of training, she worked internationally including Guatemala, Vietnam, Micronesia and India. Dr. Gupta is an active infectious diseases and HIV clinician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is also an active clinical investigator in multi-country HIV trials conducted by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and Internatonal Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Trials Network (IMPAACT) focusing on HIV, TB and other co-morbidities and treatment outcomes in adults, including pregnant women, and children.

Her specific research interests in HIV include, epidemiology, assessing HIV care and treatment practices in the public and private sector with particular emphasis on antiretroviral adherence, resistance and treatment outcomes, opportunistic infections such as diarrheal diseases and TB, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. She works with colleagues at the National AIDS Research Institute and the BJ Medical College in Pune, India, as well as with private practitioners in India. Dr. Gupta is now also working with others to understand the use of traditional Indian medicines such as Ayurveda among HIV-infected persons in India.

Through the CCGHE (www.ccghe.jhmi.edu), she is working with a terrific team to develop innovative online HIV training courses that are geared for care in resource-limited regions of the world. She enjoys teaching clinical medicine and enjoys collaborating on educational initiatives to enhance practical clinical knowledge globally.

To view Dr. Gupta's Curriculum Vitae, click here.