Join the Johns Hopkins India Institute for a look at Hopkins research projects in India involving access to care for at-risk populations, tuberculosis studies, maternal-child health, and leveraging innovative technological solutions.

Sunil Solomon, MBBS, MPH '04, PhD '09 is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Department. He studies the epidemiology and clinical management of HIV and co-infections with hepatitis viruses and tuberculosis. Dr. Solomon received a master of public health and PhD from Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty. He is the recipient of several international awards, specifically a Fogarty Research Fellowship from Brown University and Johns Hopkins University. His work has also been recognized with a prestigious Charlotte Silverman Fund Award and an election to the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society and the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society of Johns Hopkins University.

Vidya Mave, MBBS, MD, MPH is Leader and Director of Byramjee-Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University (BJGMC-JHU) Clinical Research Site (CRS) based in Pune, India. The CRS participates in several NIH- funded phase I, II, and III clinical trials of therapeutic drug interventions for HIV and co-morbid infections including tuberculosis (TB) in adults (including pregnant women), adolescents, and children, as part of AIDS Clinical Trials Group [ACTG] and the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network [IMPAACT]). She is Associate Professor in Division of Infectious Diseases of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Mave has nearly 18 years of experience in clinical practice, education, and research in infectious diseases. She is a lead investigator of a large observational cohort in Pune investigating the epidemiology of HIV in India. She serves as a member of ACTG TB transformative science group and cross-network TB vaccine working group and is involved in several TB/ HIV clinical trials. She served as Chair of the Common Protocol for the Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT) India Consortium, a collaboration among 6 Indian and US research/ teaching institutions that is part of an international effort to identify and validate biomarkers that predict TB treatment outcomes and progression from latent infection to active disease.

Smisha Agarwal, MPH '09, MBA '09, PhD holds a joint appointment in the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Research Director for the Johns Hopkins Global Health Initiative. Broadly, she is interested in research to understand interventions that can advance maternal and child health outcomes. Dr. Agarwal's current research work seeks to understand how clinical decision support systems, especially when used by community health workers can advance adherence to clinical protocols and improve primary health care outcomes in communities. Recognizing the extensive use of online health forums and patient "chatrooms" to access health information and social support, she is working to develop natural language processing backed conversational agents to support families through their reproductive journeys. Dr. Agarwal has previously worked as a researcher with FHI360, MEASURE Evaluation and Population Council. She has served as a technical advisor to several global health agencies including World Health Organization, USAID, and GSMA. She has led a series of systematic Cochrane reviews that have been leveraged by the WHO to develop global guidelines on the use of digital tools to strengthen health services.

Shruti Mehta, MPH '98, PhD '02, is the Deputy Chair in the Department of Epidemiology at the Center for Global Health. Her primary research interests include working with hard-to reach populations to understand the epidemiology, natural and treated history of HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV/HCV co-infection. Dr. Mehta earned her MPH as well as her PhD from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Robert Bollinger, MD, MPH '88, 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) and Associate Director for Medicine of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious diseases.