Director
Yale School of Medicine
Merceditas S. Villanueva, MD, associate professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Yale AIDS Program, is an infectious disease specialist with a clinical focus on HIV. She has served as the principal investigator for the New Haven Ryan White HIV Continuum grant, a collaboration between clinics and community organizations that promotes service coordination to improve quality of care for persons with HIV. Her research focuses on optimizing models of care for persons with HIV and Hepatitis C, with particular interest in partnerships between public health, medical and community stakeholders including Data to Care approaches. She has published on innovative approaches to promoting HIV-centered client re-engagement, retention and viral suppression and promoting HCV cure in HIV/HCV coinfected persons.