Hosted by Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research
In this CDUHR Seminar, Dr. Shruti Mehta will present her research entitled "Four Decades at the Intersection of Substance Use and HIV: The Lasting Impact of the ALIVE Study."
Dr. Mehta is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received a Master’s in Public Health (1997) and a PhD (2002) in Epidemiology also from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the US and in India with a particular interest and focus on identifying and overcoming barriers to access care and treatment for HIV and HCV.
She has led research programs in Baltimore and India that have produced more than 350 peer-reviewed papers. She has been continuously funded for more than 20 years with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the National Science Foundation.