Gita Mody MD, MPH

Dr. Gita Mody is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health with the Public Health Leadership Program. She received her M.D. at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and received her M.P.H. in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health. As an Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Surgery and Director of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, her clinical expertise is in caring for lung cancer patients, who are amongst the most vulnerable and underserved groups in North Carolina. Her major research interest is in optimizing quality of life and other patient-centered outcomes in patients with chronic illness through studying the implementation of digital health and other complex interventions. Her training in comparative effectiveness research, patient-reported outcomes measurement, and implementation science are synergistic, and she is well-versed with experimental and pragmatic study designs. Her current and prior work is funded through grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) , American College of Surgeons (ACS), and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF). She is passionate about global equity in health and actively engages in training the next generation of clinical-scientists from low-resourced settings through her work in the Malawi Cancer Outcomes Research Program.