Jennifer J. Furin, MD, PhD

Jennifer Furin, MD, PhD, is an infectious diseases clinician and a medical anthropologist who focuses on global health. She received her PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1999. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2002 and her fellowship in infectious diseases at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland) in 2004. Dr. Furin is engaged in clinical and program work and operational research to support the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV. She has been fighting drug-resistant TB since 1995 when she began working in Lima, Peru with Partners In Health. She has significant global experience and has done work in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Lesotho, South Africa, Georgia, Bangladesh, Swaziland, and Tajikistan. She is also a member of the Tuberculosis Transformation Science Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. She serves as a high-level consultant for a number of National TB Programs, WHO, USAID, and Médecins Sans Frontières

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Dr. Furin is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Furin is the director of Clinical Capacity Building for the Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis