Vin Gupta
Vin Gupta is an American pulmonologist and public health researcher.[1][2][3] He is also a national public health media commentator,[4][5][6][7] including serving as an NBC News medical analyst,[8][9] and was under consideration by the Biden administration for the post of United States Surgeon General in 2020.[10][11]
Gupta also serves as Senior Principal of Health and Chief Medical Officer of COVID-19 Response at Amazon,[12][13] affiliate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation,[14] and Major in the United States Air Force Medical Reserve Corps.[15] In a 2021 profile, STAT referred to Gupta as "the unlikely force shaping Amazon’s health plans: A veteran, doctor, and TV persona with big ideas for tech." [16]
He currently serves on the Board of Directors[17] of the Center for Environmental Health and is a Term Member[18] of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Education
Gupta attended Princeton University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He continued his education at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his Doctor of Medicine. He additionally received a Master of Studies in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.[19]
Career
Gupta completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Subsequently, he completed his fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.[20] During his medical training, Gupta led the development of a community-based latent Tuberculosis treatment program for homeless residents in Seattle; this work was featured by The New England Journal of Medicine.[21]
While in Boston, Gupta served as the Director of Strategic Health Diplomacy at the Harvard Global Health Institute, focusing on the effectiveness of United States development assistance and global health security.[22] During this time, he was appointed as a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development.[23] Here, he worked on issues of expanding universal health care coverage globally.[24]
In 2018, Gupta returned to the University of Washington, assuming a faculty position within the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation with a focus on the global burden of respiratory diseases[25] and the impact of climate change on human health.[26][27][28] CNBC first reported in January 2020 that Gupta had transitioned to a role at Amazon Care.[29]
References
- ↑ "Vin Gupta". Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
- ↑ "Vin Gupta: UW professor, NBC contributor on communication". Northwest Asian Weekly. 2021-11-18. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ↑ "Seattle magazine's Most Influential People of 2021". Seattle Magazine. 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ↑ "'Passion and expertise': UW's Dr. Vin Gupta shares coronavirus insights with the nation". The Seattle Times. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
- ↑ Zurawik, David. "As pandemic information from U.S. agencies became politicized, cable TV doctors stepped up in a major way | COMMENTARY". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
- ↑ Silver, Marc (2019-08-06). "A Doctor's Insights Into Gun Violence And Gun Laws Around The World". NPR. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ "Coronavirus: Vaccines & Variants with Vin Gupta, MD, and Peter Hotez, MD, PhD". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ "Mobile military ICU training for use with beleaguered U.S. hospitals". MSNBC. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ "Dr. Vin Gupta gets COVID-19 vaccine on-air: 'This is going to save lives'". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ Diamond, Dan; Cancryn, Adam. "Herd immunity by May?". Politico. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ↑ "Who Would Biden Put in Charge of Healthcare?". medpagetoday.com. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
- ↑ Rosenbaum, Eric (2021-10-22). "Amazon's top doctor on why air quality is the biggest workplace health challenge of this century". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ "Meet the unlikely veteran-turned-doctor shaping Amazon's health plans". STAT. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ "Vin Gupta". Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ "Mobile military ICU training for use with beleaguered U.S. hospitals". MSNBC. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ "Meet the unlikely veteran-turned-doctor shaping Amazon's health plans". STAT. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ↑ "Board". Center for Environmental Health. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ "The Latest Developments on COVID-19". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ↑ "'Passion and expertise': UW's Dr. Vin Gupta shares coronavirus insights with the nation". The Seattle Times. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ "'Passion and expertise': UW's Dr. Vin Gupta shares coronavirus insights with the nation". The Seattle Times. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ↑ Gupta, V; Sugg, N; Butners, M; Allen-White, G; Molnar, A (April 2015). "Tuberculosis among the Homeless — Preventing Another Outbreak through Community Action". The New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/nejmp1501316.
- ↑ Gupta, V; Kraemer, JD; Katz, R; Jha, AK; Kerry, V B; Sane, J; Ollgren, J; Salminen, MO. "Analysis of results from the Joint External Evaluation: examining its strength and assessing for trends among participating countries". Journal of Global Health. 8 (2): 020416. doi:10.7189/jogh.08.020416. ISSN 2047-2978. PMC 6204750. PMID 30410738.
- ↑ "Vinay Gupta". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ↑ Gupta, V; Kerry, VB; Goosby, E; Yates, R (September 2015). "Politics and Universal Health Coverage — The Post-2015 Global Health Agenda". The New England Journal of Medicine. 373: 1189–92. doi:10.1056/nejmp1508807.
- ↑ GBD Chronic Respiratory Disease Collaborators (June 2020). "Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017". The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine. 8 (6): 585–96. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30105-3. ISSN 2213-2619. PMC 7284317 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32526187 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Diamond, Dan; Cancryn, Adam. "Herd immunity by May?". Politico. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ↑ Gupta, V; Mokdad, A; Bollyky, T; Glassman, A; Daschle, TA (June 2019). "Leveraging climate change to improve global tobacco control". The Lancet. 393 (10187): 2182–83. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30705-6. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 31162068.
- ↑ "Making Primary Health Care Happen: From Aspirations to Reality". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ↑ Farr, Christina (2020-01-08). "Amazon's latest health hire is a high-profile public health expert and 'lung doc'". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
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