Jonathan A. Colasanti, MD, MSPH

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Dr. Jonathan Colasanti, MD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Global Health (Rollins School of Public Health) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed medical school and a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Miami. He completed his Internal Medicine and Global Health Residency at the University of Miami and his Infectious Diseases fellowship at Emory University.

Colasanti developed a passion for HIV in high school and has dedicated himself to the field ever since. He has experience treating PLHIV in Miami, Atlanta, Peru, Nicaragua and Ethiopia, giving him a global perspective of HIV treatment and care. His clinical and research interests focus on the delivery of HIV care to vulnerable populations, across the spectrum of the HIV care continuum. In his research, he seeks to bridge the implementation gap in order to improve the delivery of HIV care, by addressing socio-behavioral, biomedical, and systems-level barriers. In addition to his Atlanta-based work, he serves on the U.S. advisory board for a Nicaraguan NGO that strives to improve the delivery of primary health care in Nicaragua through a community health worker model.