Jessica Justman, MD, is Senior Technical Director and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons. As Senior Technical Director, Dr. Justman oversees ICAP’s clinical, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening activities for HIV prevention, care and treatment programs. She also supervises ICAP’s clinical laboratory support activities with the assistance of a team of regional and local laboratory advisors. In addition, Dr. Justman serves as Associate Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research (CIDER).

Before joining the Mailman School faculty, Dr. Justman was an infectious disease attending at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center for 10 years and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. She has extensive clinical experience in HIV, TB, and other infectious diseases in an inner-city setting.

Dr. Justman’s primary research interest is in HIV prevention. She has conducted several HIV prevention clinical trials and, as principal investigator of the Bronx-Lebanon HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) site, continues to conduct Phase I and II safety studies of vaginal microbicides at Bronx-Lebanon. She is an active member of the NIH’s HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Domestic Prevention Working Group and serves as Co-Chair of the HPTN’s Women’s HIV Seroincidence Study (ISIS).  She has also been an active investigator with the NIAID-funded Women’s Interagency HIV Study, a large epidemiologic study of HIV in women in the US. Dr. Justman was instrumental in identifying risks associated with diabetes and other metabolic complications in these women and the metabolic side-effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy has remained a major research interest.

Dr. Justman received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. She is Board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.