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CCGHE researchers represent a wide variety of specialites–genomics, microbiology and immunology, virology, pharmacology, prenatal and postpartum health, pediatrics, epidemiology, environmental health, mental health, behavioral health, international health, and emergency medicine. Personnel are located in India and in Baltimore, and our Indo-JHU research partnership now employs more than 150 people in India.

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Faculty
Staff

Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH

Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing

Dr. Bollinger is the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and he holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH School of Nursing. He is Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE), Associate Director for Medicine of the JH Center for Global Health, and serves on the Advisory Team for the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for COVID-19. He is board certified by the…

Amita Gupta, MD, MHS

Professor of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Gupta is Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins (JH) Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE), and Professor of Infectious Diseases at the JH School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in International Health at the JH Bloomberg School of Public Health . Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in infectious diseases, Dr. Gupta specializes in international public health, clinical research, and education in infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and antimicrobial resistant infections. Since 2003, her work has been focused primarily on India, where…

Jane McKenzie-White, MAS, MSEd

Managing Director, Director of Education Technology and Design

Ms. McKenzie-White is the Managing Director and Director of Education Technology and Design at the Center for Clinical Global Health Education. She also serves as adjunct faculty for the Johns Hopkins School of Education. She has more than 20 years of experience in program leadership, web development, health education, and research. Since joining the CCGHE in 2006, her efforts have focused on distance learning and capacity-building initiatives. Her work has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications on leveraging technology to facilitate clinical global health education and optimize…

Larry Chang, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, JHSOM; Associate Professor of International Health, Social and Behavioral Interventions Program, JHBSPH; Associate Professor of Epidemiology, JHBSPH; Associate Director, JHU Global mHealth Initiative

Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Larry Chang is Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology with an interest in interdisciplinary, innovative, and pragmatic approaches to impacting the HIV pandemic. Dr. Chang has experience in HIV treatment and prevention, implementation science, cohort, community-based trials, and mixed methods research. He is currently Co-PI of the Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP) in Uganda and is an active infectious diseases and HIV clinician. For the past…

Natasha Chida, MD, MSPH

Assistant Professor, CCGHE Director of Medical Education Content

Natasha Chida, MD, MSPH, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine. She is the Director of Medical Education Content for the Center for Clinical Global Health Education, and is Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Medical Editor for IDSA’s COVID-19 Real Time Learning Network. Her research interests include using curriculum development and education to improve patient outcomes both domestically and abroad. She is particularly…

Kelly Dooley, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Sciences

Dr. Dooley is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with appointments in the Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases. She is also a faculty member at the Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Dr. Dooley has an HIV outpatient practice and attends on the inpatient HIV service. Her research focuses on tuberculosis therapeutics with an emphasis on Phase I or II clinical trials of new or existing TB drugs and treatment of HIV/TB co-infection. She is Principal Investigator or Protocol Chair…

Jessica Elf, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor, Colorado State University

Dr. Jessica Elf is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. Dr. Elf’s research focuses on the epidemiology and health impacts of air pollution and tobacco use, with an emphasis on the HIV and tuberculosis (TB) co-epidemic. Her work aims to describe the overlap of air pollution and tobacco with these epidemics and the subsequent impact on TB and HIV health outcomes. In addition to risk characterization, her work focuses on subsequent mitigation strategies and interventions that are effective,…

Jonathan Golub, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health

Dr. Golub is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research focuses on the epidemiology of tuberculosis in South Africa, Brazil, India and the US, with specific focus on the drivers of TB in these settings. He leads a cluster randomized trial in South Africa observing diagnostic and treatment practices for latent TB infection among HIV-infected patients at 14 HIV clinics. Also, in South Africa, he leads a smoking cessation clinical trial among HIV-infected…

Akshay Gupte, PhD, MBBS, MSPH, PhD

Instructor of Medicine

Dr. Gupte is Instructor of Medicine at CCGHE. His research focuses on the intersection of infectious and chronic lung diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Gupte leads several Indo-US collaborative studies to describe the epidemiology and pathogenesis of lung impairment in TB/HIV/diabetes, measure its impact on poor clinical outcomes, and identify therapeutic and programmatic interventions to improve post-TB lung health and longevity. He is an active member of several multi-national TB/HIV research consortia such as the TB Transformative Science Working Group of the ACTG, the TB…

Nikhil Gupte, PhD

Research Associate

Pune, India

Dr. Gupte is a Research Associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Deputy Director of the BJGMC-JHU Clinical Research Site , a collaborative research partnership associated with the world’s largest HIV therapeutic trials networks, the AIDS Clinial Trials Group ( ACTG ) and the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network ( IMPAACT ). Dr. Gupte has more than 10 years of experience in public health research in developing countries and is a recognized leader in biostatistics education in India. Based in Pune, India…

Bhakti Hansoti, MBChB, MPH

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Hansoti is Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine, and honorary lecturer at the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town South Africa. She is also a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and at the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Dr. Hansoti’s professional interests include evaluating emergency care and acute care interventions in low resource settings internationally. This is intimately tied with development of research methodology and validated outcome metrics to suitable evaluate…

Yukari C. Manabe, MD

Professor of Medicine, International Health, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Dr. Manabe is currently the Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation within the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Professor of Medicine, International Health, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and a faculty member of both the Center for Tuberculosis Research and Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Dr. Manabe is the first Clinical Director of the John G. Bartlett Speciality Practice , a state-of-the-art clinic at established at Johns Hopkins in May 2017 for patients with infectious diseases. From 2007 until…

Jyoti Mathad, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College

Dr. Mathad is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology in the the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Her primary research interests include the immune changes of pregnancy and how they affect the development of tuberculosis (TB) in TB-endemic countries, such as India. Since 2010, she has been conducting research in Pune, India, on the performance of immune-based latent TB diagnostics in pregnant women with and without HIV. She is now leading the…

Vidya Mave, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Pune, India

Dr. Mave is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as Director and Clinical Research Site (CRS) Leader of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore-India Clinical Trials Unit ( JHUBI-CTU ) in Pune, India. The CTU is a collaborative research partnership between BJGMC in Pune, India and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that is part of the world’s largest HIV therapeutic trial networks (the AIDS Clinical Trials Group [ ACTG ] and the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network [ IMPAACT ]). Dr. Mave has more than 18 years of experience in…

Kathleen Page, MD

Associate Professor

Dr. Kathleen Page, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her work focuses on improving access and quality of care to underserved communities in Baltimore. She is Medical Director of Johns Hopkins TAP (The Access Partnership), whose aim is to ensure access to healthcare among uninsured or underinsured residents of East Baltimore. She provides HIV, HCV and substance use disorder care at the Bartlett Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital and at Baltimore City Health Department STD clinics. She co-founded Centro SOL (Center…

Matt Robinson, MD

Assistant Professor

Baltimore, Maryland

Matthew Robinson, MD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and he serves on the Advisory Team for the and serves on the Advisory Team for the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for COVID-19. His research focuses on the diagnosis of acute febrile illness and its implication on antimicrobial stewardship and resistance in tropical low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Robinson is assessing the etiology of febrile illness in patients presenting to a hospital in Pune, India and determining how diagnosis…

Maunank Shah, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Shah is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins (JH) School of Medicine, and a faculty member of both the JH Center for Clinical Global Health Education and the JH Center for TB Research. He is Medical Director for the Baltimore City Tuberculosis Program, an attending physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is board certified in infectious diseases and internal medicine. Dr. Shah’s research involves evaluating and implementing novel HIV and tuberculosis (TB) intervention strategies in resource constrained settings. He has evaluates new TB…

Anita Shankar, PhD, MS

Medical Anthropologist, Public Health Researcher

Dr. Shankar is a medical anthropologist and public health researcher with Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Global Clean Air. She is also a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. She has more than 20 years of experience in research and programs focused on women’s empowerment, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, community mobilization, and human resource capacity building. While serving as faculty with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…

Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, MSPH

Assistant Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a member of the faculty at the Johns Hopkins CCGHE. His formal training is in immunology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology. Dr. Shivakoti’s primary research interest focuses on the central role of inflammation in HIV and TB outcomes, both in adult and maternal-infant populations. In addition, he is interested in the relationship of nutrition and gut microbiome with inflammation and health outcomes. He is the PI of NIH-funded projects related to these topics…

Nishi Suryavanshi, PhD

Clinical Research Site Coordinator, Deputy Director, BJGMC Clinical Research Site; Research Associate, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Pune, India

Dr. Suryavanshi is Clinical Research Site Coordinator and Deputy Director for the BJGMC-CRS in Pune, India, and a Research Associate faculty member Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Center for Clinical Global Health Education. Dr. Suryavanshi is a behavioral scientists whose research involves women’s empowerment, mental health, reproductive health, and HIV and tuberculosis research in clinical settings as well in urban and rural community settings. Dr. Suryavanshi has established extensive networks with regional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and local TB and HIV programs. She…

Jeff Tornheim, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Jeff Tornheim, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases here at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research explores the application of new diagnostic technologies to improved health outcomes in the treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis among both adult and pediatric patients in India. Dr. Tornheim recently completed his infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins, during which he worked with Drs. Amita Gupta, Vidya Mave, Bob Bollinger of Johns Hopkins, and with Dr. Zarir Udwadia at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. His interest in clinical…

Mallika Alexander, MBBS

Project Manager

Pune, India

Dr. Alexander is the project manager for the PRACHITi study, a study on immunological changes in HIV positive and negative pregnant women with latent tuberculosis at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-CRS) in Pune, India. A gynecologist by training, her research interests are improving women’s health, prevention of HIV and AIDS, microbicides, and HPV related cancers. She has more than 30 years of multidisciplinary experience. Prior to joining BJGMC-CRS, she was the medical manager at National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) for eight years, where she…

Sachin R. Atre, PhD

Study Coordinator

Pune, India

Sachin Atre is a medical anthropologist who has 18 years of experience in public health research. Since November 2015, he has served as the Study Coordinator for the study Impact of Diabetes on TB Treatment Outcomes, funded by NIH/NIAID funded project on “Impact of Diabetes on TB Treatment Outcomes” which is in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University USA, BJ Medical College, India and Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune, India. He played a key role in setting up a new study site at Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre and…

Shatabdi Bagchi, MSW, PhD

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Pune, India

Dr. Bagchi is the Senior Behavioural Scientist at the BJGMC-JHU Clinical Research Site in Pune, India. She has completed her Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W) and Master of Social Work (M.S.W) from the Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India and her PhD in Social Science from the National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has handled several research and intervention projects and worked extensively with several vulnerable populations including indigenous people, ethnic minorities, women and children, and migrant populations for over 8 years…

Sagar Bhagwat, MBA, MS

Senior Grants and Contracts Analyst

Baltimore, Maryland

Mr. Bhagwat is the Senior Grants and Contracts Analyst for Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) and manages the financial activities of the center along with the Fiscal Operations Manager. He works on all aspects of sponsored research pre and post award, including development and management of federal, state, private, and foundation grants/contracts. He is the primary contact for all outgoing CCGHE subcontracts and works closely with international collaborators in India, Uganda, United Kingdom as well as domestic collaborators within the US. Mr. Bhagwat is a part…

Colter Billings

Communications Specialist

Baltimore, Maryland

Colter Billings is a Communications Specialist for JHII and CCGHE. He creates content and manages projects that amplify the mission and work of the JHII and the CCGHE. Generating and executing cross-platform communications plans, developing strategic messaging, tracking engagement and coordinating with other JHU communications teams are elements of that role. He joins CCGHE and JHII after four years as the Content and Marketing Strategist for Missouri State University-West Plains. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media from Northeastern University in Boston.

Prasad Bogam, MPH, PMP

Research Program Manager

Pune, India

Prasad is a research program manager at the BJGMC-JHU clinical research site, Pune, India and is responsible for day to day management of program activities at the site. He works closely with leadership and supports proposal development, tracking progress of projects, and facilitating collaborations with affiliate institutions. Prasad joined the team in June 2020 with more than 10 years of diverse experience across public health, clinical research, and project management. He has worked with international nonprofit organizations including Jhpiego, PATH, Noora Health, where he worked in various…

Molly Bowen

Communications Manager

Baltimore, Maryland

Molly Bowen is Communications Manager for the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) and for the Johns Hopkins India Institute (JHII). She joined CCGHE in 2015 and has more than 20 years of experience in infectious diseases communications. Molly develops CCGHE and JHII communications strategy, and she sets goals and devises plans for campaign implementation, oversight, and evaluation. She develops content, is managing editor, and oversees production for all CCGHE and JHII products across platforms to promote research, engage audiences, inform the public, and enhance…

Ana Cervantes

Senior Administrative Coordinator

Baltimore, Maryland

Ana Cervantes is Senior Administrative Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. She provides and maintains high-level of administrative support for CCGHE faculty, staff, and their multiple projects. She is a Notary Public Officer of State of Maryland of Baltimore City.. Ana contributes administrative expertise and support to the Program Manager for Centro Sol www.jhcentrosol.org on tasks related to patient advocacy, research, provider’s education for the Latinx community. She is the administrative point of contact for the Global Health TIME course for JHU…

Amol Chavan

Statistician and Junior Data Manager

Pune, India

Mr. Amol is the Statistician and Junior Data Manager at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College -JHU Clinical Research Site in Pune, India. He has 4 plus years of experience in statistical analysis and data management. He primarily manages the databases and QA/QC of TREATAsia studies. He has post graduate degree in statistics and provides many other analytics supports.

Sona Deshmukh, MBBS, MPH

Study Coordinator

Pune, India

Dr. Deshmukh is Study Coordinator for the Tuberculosis-Diabetes study at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-JHU Clinical Research Site , funded by the NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Her research interests include the epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases and policy reforms for the same. The BJGMC Clinical Research Site is a member of a the Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit, a collaborative research partnership among BJGMC, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Whitman Walker Health in Washington, DC, to conduct clinical…

Gauri Dhumal, MSc, PhD

Study Coordinator

Pune, India

Dr. Dhumal is Study Coordinator for the Hybrid trial for Alcohol reduction among people with TB and HIV in India, or HATHI, which is addressing a major public health issue of the intersection of TB and/ HIV with alcohol use. Tailoring an evidence-based alcohol reduction intervention to patients with TB and/ HIV, integrating it into TB and/HIV care settings, and examining its effectiveness improving TB and TB/HIV treatment outcomes are critical steps to addressing TB in our communities. This study will provide cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational enhancement therapy to patients to…

Alejandra Flores-Miller

Research Program Coordinator – Bilingual

Baltimore, Maryland

Alejandra Flores Miller works as a Research Program Coordinator for a PCORI-funded randomized controlled study evaluating the impact of a mHealth-enhanced retention support on HIV virologic suppression. Additionally, she coordinates the activities of the Latinx Outreach Team that provides HIV testing, education and Linkage to Care in partnership with BCHD. She currently leads a team of Latino CHW’s that provides linkage to care and COVID-19 community testing, and she connects individuals and families with COVID-19 resources. The team is also working at the vaccination community clinic that…

Cadeesha Graham

Research Program Coordinator

Baltimore, Maryland

Cadeesha Graham joined CCGHE in 2019 and is currently the Research Program Coordinator for the PCORI sponsored study to improve the linkage to care and retention among HIV-infected African Americans and Latinas. Partnered with the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD), the study will compare existing linkage to care (LTC) services to a mHealth-enhanced linkage to care and retention protocol. Cadeesha assists in recruiting, enrolling, and consenting participants who will be included in the study, assist with administering surveys and questionnaires, as well as assist study participants with…

Ruth Harley

Program Administrator

Baltimore, Maryland

Ruth Harley joined CCGHE in May 2021 as the Indo-US Program Administrator. She comes to CCGHE with over 10 years of program and project management experience, most recently in the Legal Department at Johns Hopkins Healthcare where she managed new process implementation and supported regulatory and compliance processes for Boards of Directors. Prior to that, she was a Sr. Associate at the American Red Cross International Services Department, focusing on grants and international operations. Ruth is originally from South Africa and is fluent in Afrikaans. As the Indo-US Program Administrator,…

Sadaf Aftab Inamdar, BPharm

Pharmacist of Record

Pune, India

Ms. Inamdar is a Pharmacist of Record at BJGMC-CRS , Pune, where she is responsible for study product management, supervision and training for pharmacy staff, establishment and implementation of internal policies and procedures, QA/QC management, inventory control, randomization procedures, study product preparation and dispensing, as well as counseling study participants regarding treatments, adherence monitoring, and product destruction. She is also responsible for preparing the applications for the in-country drug regulatory authority, DCGI and Zonal Officer CDSCO Mumbai. She is also…

Kristin Jackson

Sr. Administrative Coordinator

Baltimore, Maryland

Kristin Jackson is a Senior Administrative Coordinator with CCGHE. She joined the group in April 2021 and comes with over 10 years of Administrative experience, most recently working to support to federal and state government clients for multi-state, multi-million-dollar contracts. She provides and maintains high-level of administrative support for Dr. Amita Gupta and oversees managing her calendar. Kristin graduated from Howard University in May of 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Administrative of Justice.

Savita Kanade, MSc

Community Coordinator

Pune, India

Savita Kanade is working as Community and Outreach Coordinator for NIH funded clinical trials at BJGMC-CRS, Pune, India. At present she is serving as Field Representative on A5300B/I2003B/PHOENIx study. As part of NIH funded HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis clinical trials, since 2007, she was involved in recruitment and retention of participants in clinical trials and in identifying issues related to understanding barriers to participation and retention, addressing stigma and discrimination, administering informed consent, managing socio-cultural issues during the study participation, addressing…

Sameer Khan

Data Manager

Pune, India

Sameer Khan is Data Manager for the BJ Medical College Clinical Research Site ( BJGMC-CRS ) in Pune, India for clinical studies funded by two NIH trial networks: the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) and the International Maternal Paediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT). He has 19 years of experience in clinical data management, and has been working in computer science projects for the last 28 years. He worked as Database Administrator cum QA/QC administrator on a collaborative, NIH-funded clinical trial conducted by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and BJ Medical College…

Vandana Kulkarni, MS

Laboratory Manager

Pune, India

Vandana Kulkarni has a master’s degree in microbiology and has completed the Professional Development Program for Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs in Biopharmaceutical Industry. Ms. Kulkarni is Laboratory Manager at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College Clinical Research Site ( BJMC-CRS ) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, where she has worked since September of 2004. During the last 11 years, she has worked in the research laboratory providing lab support to NIH-funded ACTG and IMPAACT trials as well other studies. She is responsible for the…

Spruha Kurlekar

Sr. Research Assistant

Baltimore, Maryland

Spruha Kurlekar, CCGHE’s Sr. Research Assistant, provides research and knowledge management support. She manages the Indo-US student exchange program and supports technical tasks, data visualization, and productivity monitoring. Spruha received her MBBS from KEM Hospital in Mumbai and is a recent graduate of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, concentrating in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control. She has 3 years of experience as a research assistant and has helped conduct research on HIV, TB, and other infectious diseases in partnership with local and international partners. Spruha is…

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