Awardee

Dr. Sonya Krishnan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins and is the Associate Program Director of the Adult ID Fellowship. Her research focuses on latent tuberculosis and adverse outcomes in people living with HIV and TB, primarily through cohort studies and therapeutic clinical trials. She is the co-Principal Investigator of Bedaquiline Roll-out Evidence in Contacts and People Living With HIV to Prevent TB (BREACH-TB), a seamless Phase II/III international randomized control study evaluating the safety and efficacy of bedaquiline as TB preventive therapy. She is an Investigator for the ACTG TB Transformative Science Group, additionally acting as an Investigator of Record at the ACTG JHU Clinical Research Site. Finally she is the Chief Medical Officer for HIV-ASSIST, a free, education tool that guides the decision-making process for antiretroviral therapy selection for clinicians caring for people living with HIV. She is interested in the development of novel tools that make HIV management and care more accessible, to address the impending United States HIV provider shortage.