Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH
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Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Infectious Diseases
Co-Chair Downs Fellowship, Epidemiology of Microbial DiseasesBiography
Professor Parikh’s research interests focus on translational studies of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Parikh focuses upon several aspects of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, including studies on optimizing treatment regimens, novel chemoprevention strategies, drug resistance emergence and spread, and parasite dynamics. Current projects include: (1) understanding parasite, drug, and host factors affecting response to artemisinin-based antimalarial therapies using a combination of individual and population-based approaches to inform treatment guidelines (Uganda and Burkina Faso); 2) cluster-randomized trial of endectocides to reduce malaria transmission (Burkina Faso); and 3) characterizing the epidemiology of antimalarial drug resistance and non-falciparum species in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon and Burkina Faso), 4) testing of a novel noninvasive diagnostic device for malaria (Cameroon). Dr. Parikh has ongoing projects in several African countries, which utilize observational and cross-sectional designs, as well as prospective clinical trials. Recently, the Parikh lab, in collaboration with colleagues at Colorado State University (Prof Foy), and IRSSINSTech in Burkina Faso (Prof. Dabire and Ouedraogo) were awarded an International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research. Dr. Parikh received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his medical residency training at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. After completing his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco and Masters in Public Health at UC Berkeley he joined the faculty at UCSF. He has been a member of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health and Section of Infectious Diseases in the Yale School of Medicine since 2012.
Appointments
Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
ProfessorPrimaryInfectious Diseases
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- African Studies
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
- Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Parikh Lab
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
- YSPH Global Health Concentration
Education & Training
- MPH
- University of California at Berkeley (2005)
- Fellow
- University of California - San Francisco (2004)
- Resident
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Boston (2001)
- MD
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1998)
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News
- April 17, 2024
Inaugural Symposium Highlights Need for Allyship and Equity in Global Health
- November 20, 2023
Grant Supports Development of Novel Test for Malaria
- July 27, 2023
Grant supports development of novel noninvasive test for malaria
- March 15, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: McKenzie Colt’s post-YSPH work takes her to Liberia
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