Gregg Gonsalves, PhD
Gregg Gonsalves is an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is currently the public health correspondent for The Nation. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
Gregg Gonsalves an epidemiologist with expertise in operations research, decision science and public health. Trained in policy modeling and focusing on service delivery and decision making in health, I study how to improve the efficiency and outcomes associated with HIV treatment and prevention interventions, including those for people who use drugs (PWUD). I have a special interest in developing better methods to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases among PWUD, to expeditiously detect these outbreaks when they emerge and efficiently find cases of prevalent disease and get patients into treatment and care. For 30 years, I worked in global health, on HIV and other infectious diseases in the non-governmental sector, where I had experience in running large programs, including chairing the board of the directors of the CD4 Initiative at Imperial College of Medicine to develop simple, low-cost assays for managing HIV treatment with a $9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. My current work is at the intersection of opioid use disorder and overdose, HIV and HCV and other infectious complications of drug use, particularly in modeling new approaches to public health policy and service delivery, for which I received a 2019 Avenir Award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. In 2018, I was honored with a five-year MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for my work.