Aliya Moreira

Aliya Moreira, BA, MD, MPH

Dr Moreira is from Winchester, MA and is currently an Internal Medicine resident at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She completed her B.A. in Biology and Psychology at the University of Chicago, where she conducted an epidemiological study looking at risk factors and prevalence of toxoplasmosis in Panama. She attended medical at the University of Michigan Medical School where she served as director of the Student Run Free Clinic and Wolverine Street Medicine initiatives. She earned an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Global Health & Populations with a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Her practicum project with the Farhat Lab involved a mixed-methods study of delays to diagnosis in pediatric tuberculosis in India. During her MPH, she joined the Global Health Systems and Innovations Lab and worked with the Changing Diabetes in Children team to conduct a scoping review and build capacity for global Type 1 Diabetes disease registries. She is passionate about improving global health systems for infectious disease prevention, and on improving the integration of mental and physical health care. She is interested in pursuing a career in Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine with the goals of providing clinical care and advocacy for patients with HIV locally and globally.