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Dr. Mai Tuyet Pho is an infectious diseases physician and Associate Professor in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. She serves as the Director of Health Policy Research at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination. Her work seeks to improve health outcomes and public policy at the intersection of HIV, HCV, and substance use. Current research leverages implementation science and intervention testing to expand public health interventions that support the health of people who use drugs, with a special focus in rural communities and criminal legal involvement. Her work has been supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research and Grand Challenges Canada.
Dr. Pho served as the interim Chief Medical Officer at the Illinois Department of Public Health and a Medical Advisor for Healthcare Policy and Research. During her tenure she led multiple efforts around the opioid epidemic and HCV, including analysis on fatal and nonfatal overdose, HCV surveillance, naloxone overdose prevention and education around safe opioid prescribing. She is a member of the Illinois Statewide Opioid Crisis Response Advisory Council and the Illinois Viral Hepatitis Coalition. She is an active infectious diseases clinician providing inpatient and outpatient specialty consultation and leads institutional quality improvement efforts in HCV testing and linkage to care. She currently mentors medical students, graduate students and fellows interested in public health, health economics and public policy.
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