Biography

Dr. Mitnick is Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has worked for more than 25 years to increase access to high-quality, appropriate treatment for TB, especially for drug-resistant TB. Together with collaborators and mentees around the world, she leverages research, training, policy, programmatic support, activism, and advocacy to advance global health equity. Her research includes multi-country clinical trials and observational studies of novel treatments for rifampin-resistant TB. She also works to improve our understanding of post-TB lung impairment: the scale of the problem, how people experience it, and how to care for them.