Celine Gounder

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA, is an internist, infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, and medical journalist. She is a CBS News medical correspondent and the Editor-at-Large for Public Health at KFF Health News. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine. Her career has spanned global health emergencies — from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and research on TB/HIV control measures in southern Africa and Brazil to serving on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and as Assistant Commissioner of Health for TB at the NYC Department of Health. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She trained at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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