Sunil Suhas Solomon

Sunil Suhas Solomon MBBS, PhD, MPH is Professor in Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA. He was trained in medicine at the Sri Ramachandra Medical University in Chennai, India and received a Masters in Public Health and a Doctorate in Epidemiology (PhD) from the Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the epidemiology, clinical management and access to HIV and HCV care among vulnerable Indian populations such as people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men. He has published extensively on these topics in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals such as the Lancet ID, Lancet HIV, Clinical Infectious Diseases and AIDS. Dr. Solomon has been elected into the Phi Beta Kappa honors society for academic excellence and the Delta Omega Public Health honors society. In 2015, he was one of the first recipients of the Avenir award, a Director’s award (DP2) from the National Institutes of Health, USA aimed at identifying individuals who propose high impact research and who show promise of being tomorrow’s leaders in the field of drug abuse and HIV.