Priyanka Raichur, MBBS, MPH
Dr. Priyanka Raichur, MBBS, MPH is a Study Coordinator/Clinician at the BJGMC-JHU Clinical Research Site, Pune, India. She is currently working on the PREEMPT study, which aims to evaluate the predictors of emergence of resistance among adult MDR TB patients. She is also handling the BEAT TB Asia study which is an interrupted time series mixed-methods aiming to identify a behavioral economics approach to overcome barriers to TPT delivery in public clinics in the Philippines, Indonesia and India, and the A5407 study, which is a Phase 3 multicenter randomized trial among adult COVID positive patients. Both these studies are in the preparatory phase.
During her 11-year tenure as clinician/coordinator at BJGMC-JHU CRS she has worked on several observational and interventional projects related to HIV-TB and infectious diseases in both adult and pediatric population. These include the Antimicrobial Resistance study (AMR), C-TRIUMPH study, TBDM study, ICMR – Pediatric TB project and the SHINE study, which was a large multicentric TB therapy shortening trial among Pediatric patients with minimal TB.
Dr. Priyanka completed her MBBS from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India and her MPH from MIT-WPU-Pune, India. She is currently a part of a cohort of global scholars of the Weill Cornell Medicine’s Women In Global Health Initiative program where she received training to improve skills as a global health researcher. Her research interests include adult HIV and Tuberculosis and Women’s health.
