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Dr. Trini Mathew grew up in India and Nigeria and completed her medical school, MD with honors, from Tver State Medical Academy, Russia, after one year of language preparatory course in Zaporozhye/Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

She did her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine from Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY. She subsequently pursued her Infectious Diseases fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston, and completed her Master of Public Health through Harvard School of Public Health. During her ID fellowship, she worked with Partners In Health (PIH), Boston and Tomsk, Siberia, Russia on the intersection of TB, Alcohol Use Disorders and HIV.

For more than a decade, she has worked as a healthcare epidemiologist in academic and community settings in USA. She currently serves as the Medical Director of both Infection Prevention, Control and Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Corewell Health, Taylor, MI. She collaborates with multidisciplinary team and colleagues and has taught infectious diseases and infection prevention courses locally, regionally, and internationally. Her research interests are preventing health care associated infections, risk mitigation of outbreaks, promoting One Health, and optimizing vaccine uptake. Dr. Mathew is Associate Professor, School of Medicine at OUWB and Wayne State University (adjunct). In 2022, she started working with colleagues at Wayne State University on a grant from MDHHS, providing infection prevention education in skilled nursing facilities in city of Detroit. She is also collaborating with colleagues at Yale university on a recent CDC grant award on strengthening infection Prevention. She is also actively working on advocating and improving diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare settings.
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