Sonya Shin, MD, MPH was awarded a major National Institutes of Health research grant in 2006. She serves as principal investigator of the study, which is related to her ongoing work with tuberculosis patients in Russia and which focuses on treatment of patients with alcohol abuse disorders, which are a common impediment to successful treatment there. Dr. Shin also began a new pilot HIV/AIDS treatment project in Peru, where she has long worked as part of the Partners In Health clinical team that has scaled up treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis throughout the country. Based on the success of that project, Dr. Shin and her colleagues have been asked by the Peruvian Ministry of Health to assist in the scale up of HIV/AIDS treatment. Dr. Shin’s project is bringing Boston’s PACT treatment adherence approach (developed by Hatch Scholar Heidi Behforouz) to patients in Peru who are just starting treatment. The first beneficiaries of the program will be the most vulnerable: women, children, and patients co-infected with tuberculosis. In 2006, Dr. Shin also received Harvard Medical School’s prestigious Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship for Scholars in Medicine.

Dr. Shin graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1998. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and her Fellowship in Infectious Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by advanced training in biostatistics and modeling techniques at the Harvard School of Public Health.