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. She is also an investigator on the HIV Center's Global Community Core.

As Senior Technical Director, Dr. Justman oversees clinical, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening activities for HIV prevention, care and treatment programs for the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at the Mailman School. 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).

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.

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