Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
NYC Health+Hospitals
Disclosure(s): Gilead Sciences: Advisor/Consultant
Dr. Ofole Mgbako is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Section Chief of Infectious Diseases at NYC Health+Hospitals/Bellevue and Director of NYU/Bellevue’s HIV Equity Research Program. He received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at NYU. Prior to medical school, he worked for Physicians for Human Rights, the Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), and various HIV-related global health projects. Dr. Mgbako completed his infectious diseases fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and graduated from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health with a Master's of Science in Epidemiology and a NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Dr. Mgbako's research focuses on biobehavioral interventions such as long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis and rapid antiretroviral therapy and outcomes for racial, gender and sexual minoritized populations along the HIV prevention and care continuum. Dr. Mgbako is broadly interested in how the intersections of structural racism, homophobia, transphobia and other structural traumas impact HIV-related outcomes. He is currently an affiliated investigator at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, and has received funding from the NIH and the AAMC. He also enjoys narrative medicine, writing about the patient-provider relationship and exploring issues of race and sexuality in medicine, with pieces published in JAMA, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The New Yorker.