ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Jennifer Manne-Goehler, MD, ScD, ScM is an adult infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is originally from Miami and completed her undergraduate education at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Following her undergraduate education, Dr. Manne-Goehler was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea where she studied mandatory testing for sexually transmitted infections among entertainers in US military camptowns. She then went on to earn her MD from Boston University School of Medicine and both a Master of Science and Doctor of Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Manne-Goehler's dissertation centered on evaluating programs to prevent and treat Chagas disease in Guatemala and Peru. Following this, she completed internal medicine residency and fellowhip in Infectious Diseases in Boston. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of diabetes and HIV, including a K23 Career Development Award that seeks to trial interventions to prevent diabetes in people with HIV. Additionally, she is the co-founder of a global data collaborative called the Global Health + Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic diseases (HPACC) and a co-investigator of the Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) cohort study. Dr. Manne-Goehler is eager to translate research findings into policy and has been an advisor to the World Health Organization regarding their global diabetes strategy since 2020. As a faculty member, Dr. Manne-Goehler is deeply committed to increasing equity in academic medicine and has led several initiatives to advance the careers of women in medicine and currently co-lead a summer internship program in the BWH Division of Infectious Diseases for students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. Finally, Dr. Manne-Goehler is married and has two young children; in her free time, she enjoys long-distance running.