Celine R. Gounder

My Research

Keywords

Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Primary Care, Hospitalist Medicine, Epidemiology, Public Health, Global Health, Health Disparities, Medical Journalism, Podcasting, Filmmaking, HIV, Tuberculosis, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19, coronavirus, Opioid Use Disorder

Summary

Dr. Gounder is a CBS News Medical Correspondent and the Editor-at-Large for Public Health at KFF Health News. Prior to that was a CNN Medical Analyst and a frequent expert guest on numerous TV news programs. She's written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. She’s best known for her coverage of the COVID, Ebola, Zika, opioid overdose, gun violence and disinformation epidemics.

Dr. Gounder is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. She cares for patients on the wards at Bellevue Hospital Center.

From November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021, Dr. Gounder served on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board.

Between 2017 and 2018, Dr. Gounder cared for patients part-time at Indian Health Service and tribal health facilities in the southwest and far northeast of the United States.

In early 2015, Dr. Gounder spent two months volunteering as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea.

Between 1998 and 2012, she studied TB and HIV in South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Brazil. She later served as Assistant Commissioner and Director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

She received her BA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, her Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her MD from the University of Washington. Dr. Gounder was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, and a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University. She was elected a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2016. In 2017, People Magazine named her one of 25 Women Changing the World. In 2021, InStyle Magazine named her one of 50 Women Making the World a Better Place. In 2023, she was named one of New York City & State’s Health Care Power 100, a New York State Woman of Distinction, and a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine. In 2023, she was also elected to the National Academy of Medicine, received the Research!America Meeting the Moment for Public Health Award, and joined the Council on Foreign Relations. She and her podcast production team won the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for American Diagnosis S4E5 “Power to Police Perpetrators.” In 2024, she joined the Board of Research!America and became an advisor to the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science.