USPHS Capt. Neha Shah, M.D., M.P.H., is public health physician who serves as the Associate Director for Clinical and Laboratory Services with the International HIV Prevention and Treatment (IHPT) for the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). As part of that role, she works with the technical teams in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to improve laboratory and clinical services to ensure they reach programmatic goals.

In addition to these programmatic roles, CAPT Shah serves as the co-chair of the AFRICOS cohort study.  AFRICOS is a long-term cohort study at multiple African sites that evaluates HIV prevention, care and treatment services it supports through local facilities, funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Previously, CAPT Shah was a medical officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she oversaw tuberculosis (TB) clinical research trials for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) studies. She served as a field medical officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) Division of TB Elimination for ten years. CAPT Shah also served as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in the Global AIDS Program, CDC’s original PEPFAR program.