Celine Gounder Biography
Celine Gounder is a physician, internist, epidemiologist, filmmaker, and medical journalist from the United States who focuses on infectious diseases and global health.
She was a member of Joe Biden’s transition team for the COVID-19 Advisory Board. Gounder was born in the United States to a Tamil Indian father and Normandy, France-born mother.
Raj Natarajan Gounder is her father, and he comes from a small village near Erode in Tamil Nadu. In 1997, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in molecular biology from Princeton University.
In 2000, she graduated from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a Master of Science degree in epidemiology. Her thesis was titled Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for tuberculosis.
In 2004, she graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
She co-founded the International Health Group while she was in medical school, which works to get doctors trained to help people in need all over the world. Gounder completed her internal medicine residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Celine Gounder Career
Her first job was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There, she worked on research on TB and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and was Director of Delivery for the Gates Foundation-funded Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic.
She then joined the TB control team at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She continued to practice medicine and made the decision to attempt to address public health issues as a medical journalist after that.
Gounder began practicing medicine part-time in 2018 while working as a medical journalist to address her concerns about health issues for a long time.
She has published articles on infectious disease and other medical topics in publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic, served as a consultant for TEDMED, and appeared on television news and talk shows.
She was working on a documentary in 2018. On November 9, she was named an individual from the Coronavirus Warning Leading group of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden. Gounder will also be an Assistant Professor at NYU’s medical school in 2021.
Celine Gounder Awards
In 2000, Gounder was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society while pursuing her master’s degree at Johns Hopkins.
She received the James W. Haviland Award for “outstanding clinical competence and for unusual promise as a leader of medicine in the future” in 2004 when she graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine.
She received the Johns Hopkins W. Leight Thompson, MD Excellence in Research Award in 2010. She was also an Ashoka Changemaker Finalist and the Johns Hopkins Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. Award recipient that year.
In 2016, the Infectious Diseases Society of America named Gounder a fellow. For her contributions to health care, Gounder was included in People Magazine’s 2017 list of 25 Women Changing the World.
Celine Gounder Age
She was born in 1977 in the United States to a mother from Normandy, France, and a Tamil Indian father. Her father, Raj Natarajan Gounder, is from a small village near Erode, Tamil Nadu.
Celine Gounder Husband
Gounder was married to Grant Wahl until his death on December 9, 2022, while covering the FIFA 2022 World Cup. They and their two dogs lived in New York City.
Celine Gounder Height
She is approximately 5’7” tall.
Celine Gounder Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $800, 000.