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Professor
The George Washington University Milken School of Public Health
Dr. Amanda Castel is a Professor of Epidemiology at George Washington University Milken School of Public Health. Dr. Castel is an infectious disease medical epidemiologist whose research focuses on the HIV prevention and care continuum. She joined the faculty at the Milken Institute SPH in 2006 where she was the Chief Epidemiologist for over a decade on a public health-academic partnership with the DC Department of Health HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, TB Administration. Since then, she has successfully developed a large NIH-funded research portfolio, including as Principal Investigator of the DC Cohort, a longitudinal multi-site cohort of over 11,000 people with HIV in DC. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has worked with local health departments to conduct case investigations and train epidemiologists, and served as an advisor and consultant to schools, local health departments, universities and other organizations on safety and mitigation protocols. She has also been actively collecting data on COVID-19 outcomes among persons with HIV through her research projects.
Dr. Castel leads the DC Center for AIDS Research Ending the HIV Epidemic Work Group and previously served on the NIH’s AIDS Research Advisory Council. In addition to her research, she teaches courses on infectious diseases.
Prior to joining GWU, Dr. Castel completed her training as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Maryland Department of Health followed by a Preventive Medicine Residency at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Castel is a board-certified pediatrician and prevention medicine physician and is clinically active at Children's National Medical Center Special Immunology Clinic and the DC Department of Health, Health and Wellness Clinic. Dr. Castel holds a BA in human biology from Brown University, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins University; and completed her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.