Kenneth Gunasekera, BS

Kenneth Gunasekera is an MD-PhD student who is interested in the intersections between clinical research, epidemiology, and mathematical modeling. He is particularly interested in their applications to understand the HIV/TB co-epidemic, measure the burden of infectious disease in pediatric populations, and inform policy. He completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale and spent time studying the social determinants of health of LGBT individuals in Colombo, Sri Lanka supported by a Fulbright research grant. He aspires to practice as a pediatric infectious disease physician-scientist.