Natasha Hochberg, MD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (Section of Infectious Diseases) at Boston University School of Medicine and in the Department of Epidemiology at BU School of Public Health. She is also the Program Director for the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. Prior to her arrival at BU, Dr. Hochberg was an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and worked internationally on projects related to malaria and other diseases. She is the co-director of the travel clinic at Boston Medical Center (BMC) where she sees travelers and patients with tropical diseases, and she attends on the inpatient infectious disease consult service. She serves as the co-site director for GeoSentinel, an international surveillance system of diseases in travelers and migrants. At a national level, she is part of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene where she serves as a Councilor for the Clinical Group, as a member of the Scientific Program Committee, and as the Chair for the Subcommittee on Pneumonia, Respiratory Infections and TB. Dr. Hochberg’s research focuses on tropical diseases. Particularly, she studies the impact of malnutrition and parasitic disease on tuberculosis (TB), tropical diseases in immigrant populations, and preventing diseases in international travelers. Dr. Hochberg has taught courses at BU School of Public Health on Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Outbreak Investigations.