Dr. Celine Gounder

Celine Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (born c.1977) is a practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist and internist, epidemiologist, journalist and filmmaker. Dr. Gounder is the host and producer of In Sickness and in Health, a podcast on health and social justice. She's written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian US, The Washington Post, Reuters, Quartz, Sports Illustrated and Bloomberg View. Gounder is a frequent expert guest on MSNBC, CNN, HLN, Al Jazeera America, CBS, BBC, MTV and Oprah Prime. She's best known for her print and TV coverage of the Ebola, Zika and opioid abuse epidemics. Dr. Gounder 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 and featured in the IDSA's 2017 Annual Report. In 2017, People Magazine named her one of 25 Women Changing the World. Dr. Gounder lives with her husband Grant Wahl in New York City.