Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH

Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH is an infectious disease fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania before attending Hamilton College, where he studied mathematics. After college, he worked at the National Institutes of Health in Irini Sereti’s laboratory, studying the immunopathogenesis of HIV. He went on to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the potential for the use of deceased organ donors with HIV in Philadelphia. He then completed the Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where his clinical and research focus was on HIV, tuberculosis, and cholera in rural Haiti. He is interested in the relationship between poverty, food security, individual and population outcomes for infectious diseases, and the use of the social safety nets to improve these outcomes.