- HIV/AIDS Research
- Aging
- Chronic Disease
- +۷ مورد دیگر
Dr. 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 appointment in the Department of General Internal Medicine with secondary appointments in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science and Health Policy & Management. Dr. Justice is also affiliated with Yale School of Public Health, Yale Cancer Center, and VA Connecticut Healthcare. 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 Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1996). As a clinical epidemiologist, Dr. Justice has developed multiple large national cohorts based on data from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. The centerpiece of her work is the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), an ongoing longitudinal study of over 170,000 United States veterans with and without HIV infection that has been continuously funded by NIH since 1996. She has developed and validated widely used clinical indices including the VACS Index for prognosis and the HIV Symptom Index. Her research spans HIV/AIDS epidemiology, aging with HIV, chronic disease management in veterans, and health policy implications for HIV care. Dr. Justice has published over 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts with recent work focusing on alcohol treatment among people with HIV, hepatotoxicity scoring, anemia associations with survival in HIV, multiomic analysis of opioid addiction, liver injury, fatty liver disease identification using NLP, pain genetics, epigenetic markers of aging, and health disparities among marginalized populations with HIV. 2025: John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from Society of General Internal Medicine 2022: William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor from Medical Health Broad Portfolio to senior VA biomedical research scientists Dr. Justice advises numerous researchers through the Veterans Aging Cohort Study and has secured continuous NIH funding since 1996. Her work has been presented at the United Nations, International AIDS Society, Royal Medical College in London, the White House, and Congress. She serves on the International Advisory Boards of Lancet HIV and Journal of the International AIDS Society . Dr. Justice leads the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), which has become a cornerstone resource for HIV research in aging populations. The VACS has enabled groundbreaking studies on the long-term effects of HIV, comorbid conditions in the modern treatment era, and the development of clinical tools that have shaped HIV care guidelines and practices.














