Pranay Sinha, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Infectious Diseases

MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
BS, Adelphi University



Dr. Sinha attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and finished residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he received a distinction in Global Health and Equity. He has been involved in TB research since 2014 and his primary interest is in the relationship between undernutrition and TB. Through epidemiological studies & health economic modeling, he hopes find ways to use nutritional policy to end TB. Dr. Sinha has field experience in India and South Africa. Clinically, he works as an Infectious Diseases physician at Boston Medical Center.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

Dr. Sinha is dedicated to reducing global health disparities with a focus on undernutrition and tuberculosis. He has advocated for these issues through his writing in the popular press in venues such as the New York Times and the Huffington Post.

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  1. Barathi A, Krishnamoorthy Y, Sinha P, Horsburgh C, Hochberg N, Johnson E, Salgame P, Govindarajan S, Senbagavalli PB, Lakshinarayanan S, Roy G, Ellner J, Sarkar S. Effect of treatment adherence on the association between sex and unfavourable treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Puducherry, India: a mediation analysis. J Public Health (Oxf). 2023 Jun 14; 45(2):304-311.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35692180; PMCID: PMC10273348; DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdac062;
     
  2. Acuña-Villaorduña C, Sinha P. Bedaquiline, Pretomanid and linezolid (BPaL) for MDR-TB treatment in the United States: a BIG deal. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 May 30. PMID: 37249072
     
  3. Sinha P, Ponnuraja C, Gupte N, Prakash Babu S, Cox SR, Sarkar S, Mave V, Paradkar M, Cintron C, Govindarajan S, Kinikar A, Priya N, Gaikwad S, Thangakunam B, Devarajan A, Dhanasekaran M, Tornheim JA, Gupta A, Salgame P, Christopher DJ, Kornfeld H, Viswanathan V, Ellner JJ, Horsburgh CR, Gupte AN, Padmapriyadarsini C, Hochberg NS. Impact of Undernutrition on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in India: A Multicenter, Prospective, Cohort Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 17; 76(8):1483-1491.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36424864; PMCID: PMC10319769; DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac915;
     
  4. Sinha P, Jacobson KR, Horsburgh CR, Acuña-Villaorduña C. At Long Last: Short, All-Oral Regimens for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Apr; 10(4):ofad177.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37125228; PMCID: PMC10135426; DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofad177;
     
  5. McLaughlin A, Burns R, Ryan M, Abbasi W, Harvey L, Hicks J, Sinha P, Assoumou SA. Comparing COVID-19-related Morbidity and Mortality Between Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Subst Abuse. 2023; 17:11782218231160014.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36968974; PMCID: PMC10034287; DOI: 10.1177/11782218231160014;
     
  6. McLaughlin A, Burns R, Ryan M, Abbasi W, Harvey L, Hicks J, Sinha P, Assoumou SA. Comparing COVID-19-related Morbidity and Mortality Between Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Subst Abuse. 2023; 17:11782218231160014.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36968974; PMCID: PMC10034287; DOI: 10.1177/11782218231160014;
     
  7. McQuaid CF, Sinha P, Bhargava M, Weerasuriya C, Houben RMGJ, Bhargava A. Tuberculosis and nutrition: what gets measured gets managed. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Apr; 11(4):308-310. PMID: 36870352
     
  8. Carwile M, Cintron C, Jain K, Buonomo G, Oliver M, Dauphinais M, Narasimhan PB, Prakash Babu S, Sarkar S, Locks L, Kulatilaka N, Hochberg N, Lakshminarayanan S, Sinha P. Not business as usual: Engaging the corporate sector in India's TB elimination efforts. Glob Public Health. 2023 Jan; 18(1):2120405.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37252903
     
  9. VanValkenburg A, Kaipilyawar V, Sarkar S, Lakshminarayanan S, Cintron C, Babu SP, Knudsen S, Joseph NM, Horsburgh CR, Sinha P, Ellner JJ, Narasimhan PB, Johnson WE, Hochberg NS, Salgame P. Corrigendum: Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1064883.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36341454; PMCID: PMC9632611; DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1064883;
     
  10. VanValkenburg A, Kaipilyawar V, Sarkar S, Lakshminarayanan S, Cintron C, Prakash Babu S, Knudsen S, Joseph NM, Horsburgh CR, Sinha P, Ellner JJ, Narasimhan PB, Johnson WE, Hochberg NS, Salgame P. Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1011166.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36248906; PMCID: PMC9554585; DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1011166;
     
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Bar chart showing 35 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2021

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2021-2023 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: Burroughs Wellcome/ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020 Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society: Edward Kass Award
2020 Boston Medical Cwnter: Fellow Teaching Award
2019 Maxwell Finland Award
2017 Power Day Resident Award
2017 Peggy Bia Medical Student Teaching Award
2017 West Haven VA clinic award
2017 Frederick L. Sachs Award
2016 Samuel D. Kushlan Award
2014 Medical Student Teaching Award
2014 Edgar F. Shannon Award of the Z Society
2013 Adelphi University 10 under 10 Program for “exceptional career & personal accomplishments”
2013 Gold Humanism Honor Society: Member
2013 The Raven Society: Member
2011 Ram Family Center for Global Health Scholarship
2009 Joseph Serio Award for Excellence in Academics & Research
2008 5th Adelphi University Research Conference: Outstanding Paper Contribution to the Sciences
2007 Departmental Honors for Academic Achievement in Organic Chemistry
In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

Tuberculosis Infections, Latent
Tuberculosis, Multi Drug Resistant
Malnutrition
Global Health
HIV Infection
Epidemiology
Economics, Medical
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