Research Associate Professor of Medicine (Voluntary)
Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Rupa Patel MD MPH is the PrEP Clinic Medical Liaison and PrEP Clinical Research Lead at Whitman Walker Health and Institute in Washington, D.C. She is the former Director of the CDC Midwest HIV Prevention Capacity Building Center which provides program development technical assistance to health departments, clinics and community-based organizations (CBO) in 12 states. She is a Research Associate Professor of Medicine (Voluntary) in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on biomedical HIV prevention implementation strategies (PrEP/PEP) in non-clinical settings (e.g., peer-led programs, CBO and pharmacy-based programs, at-home care, etc.) and primary care safety-net centers, as well as cost- and insurance-related barriers to PrEP care for young adults at risk for HIV. Dr. Patel is a member of the WHO PrEP Implementation Technical Advisory Group and has served as a PrEP clinical advisor for large-scale projects in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.