Dr Amita Gupta has co-founded the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at the US university and is working with the Indian government to launch a screening programme in schools
Over 10 million people suffered from tuberculosis (TB) in 2023, with India accounting for about 26 percent of the total TB cases in the world, says the World Health Organization. Dr Amita Gupta, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US, has a strategy to fight TB in India, starting from schools. In this effort, she has co-founded the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins.
Born in the US, Gupta has been associated with the university for about two decades, where she specialises in research on infectious diseases. In 2020, she co-founded the institute to foster collaboration between TB researchers at Johns Hopkins and Indian medical research institutes.