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Amy Justice is the Peter N. Herbert Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) and Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at Yale School of Medicine. She holds primary appointments in General Internal Medicine and secondary appointments in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science and Health Policy & Management. Her extensive affiliations include the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), Yale Cancer Center, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and numerous other research centers focused on HIV, aging, and veterans' health.
Dr. Justice earned her BA from Harvard University (1982), MD from Yale University School of Medicine (1988), MSc from University of Pennsylvania Medical School (1994), and PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1996).
As a clinical epidemiologist, Dr. Justice specializes in developing large national cohorts using Veterans Affairs Healthcare System data. Her research focuses on aging with HIV, chronic disease management, and health policy. She has developed the widely used Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), an ongoing longitudinal study of over 170,000 US veterans with and without HIV infection that has been continuously funded by NIH since 1996. Her work includes developing prognostic indices like the VACS Index and HIV Symptom Index.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on HIV and aging, particularly examining comorbidities, substance use disorders, and cancer in veterans with HIV. Her research increasingly incorporates multi-omics approaches, machine learning techniques, and cross-cohort validations to address complex health challenges faced by aging veterans with HIV.
- William S. Middleton Award (2022)
- John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research (2025)
Dr. Justice has secured continuous NIH funding since 1996 for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study and currently serves as principal investigator for the National Cancer Institute provocative questions grant 'HIV and Aging Mechanisms for Hepatocellular Cancer.' She is active in national advisory roles including the National Cancer Institute Ad hoc Subcommittee on HIV and AIDS Malignancy and the HIV and Aging Working Group of the NIH Office of AIDS Research. Her international influence extends to advisory boards for Lancet HIV and Journal of the International AIDS Society.
She leads the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), one of the largest and longest-running studies of veterans with and without HIV, which has generated over 400 peer-reviewed publications. Her team includes frequent collaborators like Joseph Lucien Goulet, Kirsha Gordon, and Christopher T Rentsch, with whom she has published dozens of joint studies.
