Chelsea Modlin, MD

Hecht-Levi Fellow

Chelsea Modlin is currently a clinical fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a graduate of the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program at Emory University with distinctions in Global Health and Leadership in Teaching and Education. Her research centers on the intersection of global health ethics and infectious diseases including equity in HIV/tuberculosis clinical outcomes, building research capacity in low-income settings, and fairness within international academic collaborations. As a Hecht-Levi fellow she plans to concentrate on social justice, resource allocation, and vaccine nationalism around global SARS-CoV-2 vaccination efforts. Chelsea is part of a cohort of Hecht-Levi Fellows that focuses on Ethics and Infectious Diseases, jointly appointed at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University and the Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford.