Dr. Kanjilal is a Lecturer in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and the Associate Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an infectious diseases physician at the BWH and course director for Microbiology at Harvard Medical School. His research interests lie in the use of observational and experimental data to improve the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. Specific areas of work include building generalizable, data-driven testing strategies in skilled nursing and healthcare facilities to detect and prevent the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. Related work involves the development of decision support tools built over machine learning models that assist healthcare providers in identifying infection and choosing treatments that optimize the balance between patient and population-level outcomes across multiple time horizons. His long-term goal is to integrate accurate and interpretable artificial intelligence decision algorithms into clinical workflows and to use these models on a broader scale to inform public health policy.
