Preeti Pathela is the Executive Director of the STI Program in the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STI at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with overall responsibility for directing, evaluating, and coordinating the activities of the Program, which consists of roughly 70 staff who conduct work in STI program implementation, surveillance and field operations, and epidemiology, research and evaluation. She has 18 years of experience in STI/HIV prevention and control, with a previous role of Director of STI Research and Evaluation at the NYC Health Department, during which time she oversaw a unit comprising analysts who examined data on STI/HIV patterns among the program’s sexual health clinic population, as well as at the citywide level, to generate and answer research questions around STD/HIV risk, prevention, and service delivery. She serves on the American STD Association’s Board of Directors and as an Associate Editor of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Preeti received a DrPH degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her MPH from Emory University.
