Celine Gounder, MD

Celine Gounder, MD is an internationally-renowned Internist, Infectious Disease Specialist, and Epidemiologist. She is a CBS News Medical Contributor and a Senior Fellow and Editor-at-Large for Public Health at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News.

Dr. Gounder is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. She cares for patients at Bellevue Hospital Center, is one of the world’s leading experts in science, medicine, and public health communication, and advises local and national policymakers on issues of public health, including epidemics and pandemics, the health impacts of climate change, mental health, drug overdose, and
disinformation.

Prior to joining CBS News, Dr. Gounder was a CNN Medical Analyst and a guest expert on numerous other networks. She has written for several publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. She is a frequent guest on NPR and other radio and podcast programs, including two she produces: American Diagnosis and Epidemic.

Between 2017 and 2018, Dr. Gounder cared for patients at Indian Health Service and tribal health facilities. In early 2015, she spent two months volunteering as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea, interviewing locals to understand how the crisis was affecting them.

Early in her career, Dr. Gounder studied HIV and tuberculosis in Brazil and southern Africa. While on faculty at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Gounder was Director for Delivery for the Gates Foundationfunded Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic. She served as Assistant Commissioner of Health for Tuberculosis at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Dr. Gounder earned her Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, her Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her MD from the University of Washington. She was an intern and resident of Internal Medicine at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, and a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University.