Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health; Section Chief of Infectious Diseases, NYC Health+Hospitals/Bellevue
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): Gilead: Advisor/Consultant
Dr. Ofole Mgbako is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Section Chief of Infectious Diseases at Bellevue Hospital and Co-Clinical Pillar Lead of the NYU Langone Institute for Excellence in Health Equity. He received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his internal medicine residency at NYU Langone, where he also served as Senior Chief Resident. Prior to medical school, he worked for Physicians for Human Rights, the Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), and worked on various HIV-related global health projects in Ghana, Jamaica and South Africa. During medical school and residency, he worked abroad clinically in Botswana, Rwanda and Uganda, serving as a teaching resident as part of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholars Program. Dr. Mgbako completed his infectious diseases fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and graduated from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health with a Master's of Science in Epidemiology and a NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Dr. Mgbako's research focuses on biobehavioral interventions such as long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis and rapid antiretroviral therapy and outcomes for racial, gender and sexual minoritized populations along the HIV prevention and care continuum. Dr. Mgbako is broadly interested in how the intersections of structural racism, homophobia, transphobia and other structural traumas impact HIV-related outcomes. He is currently an affiliated investigator at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, and has received funding from the NIH and the AAMC. He also enjoys narrative medicine, writing about the patient-provider relationship and issues of race and sexuality in medicine, with pieces published in JAMA, The Lancet, and The New Yorker.