Professor Susan H. Eshleman

Susan H. Eshleman is a Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research programme includes basic, translational, and clinical research. Her basic research programme focuses on HIV diversity and how it affects HIV transmission, disease progression and treatment outcomes. Her translational research programme focuses on developing and evaluating assays and laboratory methods for HIV analysis.

Susan H. Eshleman directs two College of American Pathologists–accredited laboratories at Johns Hopkins University: the HIV Genotyping Laboratory and the HIV Clinical Research Laboratory. Her clinical research programme focuses on HIV prevention.

She Eshleman is also the principal investigator of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Laboratory Center, one of three leadership groups of the National Institutes of Health–sponsored HIV HPTN. HPTN performs cohort studies and clinical trials evaluating behavioural, biomedical and structural interventions for HIV prevention in the United States of America, Africa, South America, Asia and eastern Europe. Her research programme and the activities of the HPTN also include studies related to COVID-19.