She serves as an associate physician in the Division of Women's Health and the Division of Medical Communications, in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and is a research scientist at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. She obtained a BA from Amherst College, and a MA in Health Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health before pursuing her degree in Medicine at University of California at San Francisco (AOA). After completing her medical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases, she received a Global Women's Health Fellowship to study HPV vaccine uptake among adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. Her current research focuses on factors affecting refusal to participate in HIV treatment programs among HIV-infected, treatment eligible adults presenting for testing.