Amita Gupta

Dr. Amita Gupta is the Florence Sabin Professor of Infectious Diseases, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and founder and faculty Co-chair of the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in International Health at the JH Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She has worked in India for the past 22 years on HIV, TB and other infectious diseases. She is the US Chair for the Indo-US Vaccine Action Program-sponsored RePORT India TB research consortium, which is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the government of India, Department of Biotechnology. She also is a member of the global RePORT International Executive Committee, a multilateral global consortia for TB research, and Co-principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Johns Hopkins University Baltimore-India Clinical Trials Unit (JHUBI-CTU). She previously served on the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center for Excellence for COVID-19, and in 2019, Dr. Gupta was appointed by the US Health and Human Services Secretary for a 4-year term to the NIAID Council, the chief advisory committee for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 2020, she was invited to the Governing Board of the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum, and in 2023 was appointed to serve on the Association of American Universities’ Task Force on Expanding United States-India Partnerships. She is a Founder’s Circle member of Indiaspora.

Dr. Gupta is an author of more than 300 peer-reviewed research publications and she has mentored more than 40 junior scientists in India and the US. Dr. Gupta received an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Materials Science Engineering, a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School, and a Master of Health Sciences in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine training at San Francisco General Hospital-University of California, San Francisco, followed by post-doctoral fellowships with the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases) and at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Infectious Diseases).