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Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH
Joia
S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH is an expert
in the implementation and scale-up
of treatment for complex diseases,
including HIV and TB, in
resource-poor settings. Since 2001,
she has served as the Medical
Director of Partners In Health, an
international non-governmental
organization that provides direct
health care services and undertakes
research and advocacy activities on
behalf of those who are sick and
living in poverty. Dr. Mukherjee has
overseen the expansion of successful
community-based HIV/AIDS treatment
programs across rural central Haiti,
rural Rwanda, and, most recently,
remote sites in Lesotho and Malawi.
Dr. Mukherjee has also served as a
key clinical and public health
adviser in the scale-up of treatment
programs for multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis (MDR TB) nationwide in
Peru as well as to 14 states in the
Russian Federation.
Dr. Mukherjee is an Instructor at
Harvard Medical School and an
Associate Physician in the Division
of Social Medicine and Health
Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. Her research focuses on
social and economic factors
affecting health in impoverished
settings. In addition to publishing
extensively in the medical and
public health literature, Dr.
Mukherjee is the editor-in-chief of
Partners In Health’s Guide to the
Community-Based Treatment of HIV in
Resource-Poor Settings, now in its
second edition. In 2006 Dr.
Mukherjee served as a leading
contributor to new World Health
Organization (WHO) guidelines for
adult and pediatric HIV treatment in
resource-poor settings, and she also
made major contributions to the 2006
WHO guidelines on the management of
MDR TB. Dr. Mukherjee is also the
director of the Institute for Health
and Social Justice, PIH’s advocacy
and education arm.
Dr. Mukherjee received her MD from
the University of Minnesota in 1992
and completed her clinical training
in internal medicine, pediatrics,
and infectious disease at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. She
received a Masters in Public Health
from the Harvard School of Public
Health in 2001.
For more information about Partners
In Health, please visit
www.pih.org
For more information about the
Department of Social Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, please visit
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm
For more information about the
Division of Social Medicine and
Health Inequalities at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, please visit
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine |
