Dr. Ethel D. Weld, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of medicine, pharmacology, and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Chicago and her PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and subspecialty board certified in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology, and serves as an attending Infectious Diseases physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She is the recipient of Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) faculty retention funding, a CFAR Faculty Development Award for her study “Feasibility, Development and Validation of a Non‐cold‐chain‐requiring Assay to Measure Long‐acting Antiretrovirals in Blood”, and an NIH K23 mentored career award for her project entitled “Optimizing the Use of Long-Acting Antiretrovirals for Youth with HIV”. She chairs the IMPAACT 2005 and 2034 trials, both multi-site international studies of novel TB therapeutics in children. Her primary research focus is on developing HIV and TB therapeutics in special populations, and optimizing long-acting therapeutics for individuals with HIV and adherence challenges.
