Neha Shah

Neha Shah, M.D., M.P.H., is the Associate Director for Clinical Clinical and Laboratory Services in IHPT, working with the technical teams to improve laboratory and clinical services in all PEPFAR-funded programs. She serves as the agency POC for Uganda. In addition to these programmatic roles, Neha reviews PEPFAR-funded research activities.

Previously, Neha was a medical officer at the NIH, where she oversaw TB clinical research trials for ACTG studies. She also served as a field medical officer in the CDC’s Division of TB Elimination, first to the Chicago Department of Health and then the San Francisco TB Program and was Director, TB Free California within the California Department of Health’s TB Control Program for 10 years. She was also a CDC EIS officer in the Global AIDS Program, CDC’s original PEPFAR program.

Neha received her M.D. degree from New York Medical College, trained in Internal Medicine in the Boston University Program, and achieved her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Neha has worked extensively in TB and HIV surveillance and has led TB and HIV outbreak investigations in many parts of the world. She also served in the Ebola response in 2014-15. Neha has overseen and/or contributed to the development of different TB treatment guidelines, particularly for MDR TB and recently to the introduction and evaluation of the 3-month (3-HP) TB chemoprophylaxis regimen in California. She has many peer-reviewed publications and has received many service awards, most recently as a 2019 CDC TB Elimination Champion.