Justy Antony Chiramal

Justy Antony Chiramal is an MS student in Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She received her MBBS and MD in Internal Medicine from the Christian Medical College, Vellore in India, and her Tropical Medicine training from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru and the Mahidol University, Thailand. She has worked as a clinician at charitable hospitals in Southern India, as part of epidemiology work in Bangalore, in tobacco cessation activities, and led an outbreak investigation of hospital acquired infection. Prior to joining START, she worked as a clinical consultant and data scientist in developing algorithms that could screen chest X-rays for Tuberculosis. Most recently, she worked as a clinical consultant and data scientist in developing algorithms for COVID-19 which was deployed at 70+ sites across the world. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology including surveillance and exploring the interface of data analysis and medicine.