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Damani Piggott, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships
Johns Hopkins University, United States

Dr. Piggott is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He is Associate Faculty in the Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health. Dr. Piggott also serves as the Inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships and Director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Piggott received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Spanish from Morehouse College. He subsequently obtained his PhD degree in Immunology and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed clinical residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Scholar, Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the United States, the Caribbean, West Africa and South Africa. He is actively engaged in the clinical care of patients with HIV. His research program centers on understanding the biological, behavioral, and social pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV, with particular focus on those most severely affected by the HIV epidemic, namely socially marginalized, historically vulnerable and resource-constrained communities. Dr. Piggott serves as Co-Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and is a founding member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Access, and Equity Task Force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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