Gupta Named Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Gupta is a Professor of Medicine with a joint appointment in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is deputy director of the JHU Center for Clinical Global Health Education and a faculty co-chair for the Johns Hopkins India Institute. Dr. Gupta specializes in international public health, clinical research and education in infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistant infections. Since 2003, her work has focused primarily on India, where she leads several Indo-JHU research collaborations funded by NIH, CDC, UNITAID and others. She serves in leadership positions in RePORT India and RePORT International, a multilateral global consortia for TB research, and is co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded JHU Baltimore-India HIV and Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials Unit which seeks to identify new treatments and vaccines for HIV, TB and other infections globally through the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network.