Keynote Speaker: Joia 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 2000, 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 central Haiti, southeastern 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 multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) nationwide in Peru, as well as to 14 states in the Russian Federation.
Dr. Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor 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 human rights and the social and economic factors affecting health in impoverished settings. In addition to publishing extensively in 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. Furthermore, Dr. Mukherjee is a major contributor to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the treatment of adult and pediatric HIV in resource-poor settings, and an author of the WHO guidelines on the management of MDR-TB. Dr. Mukherjee also serves as the director of the Institute for Health and Social Justice, the advocacy and education arm of PIH.
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.
(Source: Partners In Health)
