Sonya Shin, MD, MPH received her MD in 1998 from Harvard Medical School and her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Infectious Disease Department and the Division for Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Shin trained in infectious diseases and provides HIV and TB care in Boston, Peru and Russia. Her research projects include a randomized trial to treat alcohol disorders among TB patients in Russia, a large scale operational study to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness impact of rapid drug susceptibility testing when implemented in Peru under program conditions, and a controlled cohort study to provide community-based accompaniment with supervised antiretroviral therapy to impoverished TB-HIV patients in Peru. Dr. Shin is also co-investigator of a U19 grant from the NIAID to study the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of MDR/XDR tuberculosis.
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