Amesh Adalja specializes in infectious disease, bioterrorism, and emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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Amesh Adalja's family moved to Butler, Pennsylvania when he was about two years old and remained there throughout his childhood.
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Amesh Adalja graduated at age 17 from high school and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University at the age of 19.
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Amesh Adalja then took a finance job in New York City before completing his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean.
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Amesh Adalja was employed there from 2007 to 2017 and remains on staff.
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Amesh Adalja simultaneously served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and in the Department of Emergency Medicine, as well as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases.
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Amesh Adalja participated in the Clade X bioterrorism preparedness exercise in May 2018.
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Amesh Adalja became an external advisor to the New York City Health and Hospital emergency management highly infectious disease training program, as well as on a Federal Emergency Management Agency working group on nuclear disaster recovery.
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Amesh Adalja has served in various roles for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, including as a spokesperson, a member of their public health committee, a member of their diagnostics committee, and as part of their precision medicine working group.
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Amesh Adalja served as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association coronavirus advisory group and an informal advisor to the International Monetary Fund.
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In November 2021, Amesh Adalja, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, stated, "We will be living with this virus, there is no covid zero", suggesting that the pandemic may now have become an endemic.