Aaloke Mody, MD

Aaloke Mody, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Aaloke Mody, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. He is a physician with training in HIV, infectious diseases, implementation science, and epidemiologic methods.

Aaloke’s overarching research interests are in utilizing implementation science and epidemiologic methods to better understand how to deliver high-quality and person-centered HIV care in routine practice in low- and middle-country settings. His work has specifically focused on health system strategies to improve engagement and re-engagement into care and optimize the person-centeredness of provider behaviors, and he has specific interests in extending this knowledge to improve care for non-communicable diseases as well. Methodologically, he has specific expertise in pragmatic study designs and utilizing advanced epidemiologic methods, including natural experiments and other causal methods for real-world data, to better understand real-world implementation of public health programs in these settings.

Aaloke currently works extensively with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), a nongovernmental organization based out of Lusaka, Zambia that supports implementation and research at public health facilities in Zambia. Aaloke is a lead consultant for the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core (DIRC) in the Institute for Clinical Translational Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He serves as an academic editor at PLOS Medicine and an associate editor at Implementation Science Communications.

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Patients seen at

Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110

Additional Titles
  • Staff Physician, John Cochran VAMCSt. Louis, MO
Education
  • BA Molecular and Cell Biology: University of Carlifornia, Berkley, CA (2006)
  • MD: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (2012)
  • Internal Medicine Residency – Global Health Track: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2015)
  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco, CA (2019)
Board Certifications
  • Internal Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
Selected Publications
  1. Mody A, Sohn AH, Iwuji C, Tan RKJ, Venter F, Geng EH. HIV epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and implementation strategies for public health. Lancet. 2023 Nov 30:S0140-6736(23)01381-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01381-8. Online ahead of print.PMID: 38043552

Bibliography – Aaloke Mody