Gypsyamber D'Souza is an American epidemiologist. She is a professor of epidemiology at the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. As the second independent, degree-granting institution for research in epi ...

. D'Souza researches infectious diseases (including HPV, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2), cancer prevention, and translational epidemiology. She is a

principal investigator In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The phrase is also often us ...

of the

Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) is an ongoing cohort study involving over 6,000 men, including both those infected with HIV, as well as HIV-negative men. The MACS has four main sites: Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The Los ...

Women's Interagency HIV Study The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) was established in August 1993 to investigate the impact and progression of HIV disease in women. he WIHS enrolls both HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. The core portion of the study includes a detailed ...

Combined Cohort Study (Mwccs.org).

Education

D'Souza earned a B.A. from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

in 1996 and a M.S. from

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

in 1999. She completed a M.P.H. at

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is a public academic health science center in Houston, Texas, United States. It was created in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents. It is located in the T ...

in 2001 and a Ph.D. at

in 2007. Her dissertation was titled ''Oropharyngeal cancer attributable to human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) infection''. Her doctoral advisors were and

Maura L. Gillison Maura Lianne Gillison is an American medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist. She is credited as the first investigator to establish a connection between HPV and oral cancer. Early life and education Gillison was born in Canada but moved ...

Career and research

D'Souza is a professor in the division of cancer epidemiology within the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is jointly affiliated in the division of global disease epidemiology and control within the department of international health and the

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...

. D'Souza researches infectious diseases,

behavioral risk management Behavioral risk involves the identification, analysis, and management of risk factors in industrial and organizational psychology. Its management regards the process of managing workplace risk factors pertinent to Organizational Behavior, organizati ...

, and translational epidemiology. She is the lead of a

HPV Human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is caused by a DNA virus from the '' Papillomaviridae'' family. Many HPV infections cause no symptoms and 90% resolve spontaneously within two years. In some cases, an HPV infection persists and re ...

and related cancer research program that also investigates risk

triage In medicine, triage () is a practice invoked when acute care cannot be provided for lack of resources. The process rations care towards those who are most in need of immediate care, and who benefit most from it. More generally it refers to prio ...

and

risk communication Risk communication is a complex cross-disciplinary academic field that is part of risk management and related to fields like crisis communication. The goal is to make sure that targeted audiences understand how risks effect to them or their communit ...

. D'Souza is a

on the

(MACS) /

(WIHS) Combined Cohort Study (MACS/WIHS-CSS), a collaborative research effort that aims to understand and reduce the impact of chronic health conditions—including heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) disorders—that affect people living with HIV.

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