Dr. Céline Gounder Biography

Dr. Céline Gounder is an award winning journalist currently working as a CBS News medical contributor where her reporting on medical and health issues appears across all platforms and programs, including “CBS Mornings” and CBS News 24/7. In 2022, she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.

Dr. Céline Gounder Career

Moreover, Gounder is also a member of CBS News and Stations’ Medical, Health, and Wellness Unit, a center of reporting excellence focused on delivering stories that matter to viewers. In addition, she is considered one of the world’s leading scientific, medical, and public health communication experts. While at CBS News, Gounder has reported on a wide range of issues, including cyberattacks on hospitals, the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise in opioid addiction, mammograms, monkey pox, and more.

Furthermore, she is a clinical associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. Gounder also treats patients at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Prior to joining CBS, she was a CNN medical analyst and also published more than 100 op-eds in outlets such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and the Washington Post. Additionally, Gounder founded Just Human Productions, a nonprofit multimedia organization that produced two podcasts, “American Diagnosis” and “Epidemic.”

In addition, she cared for patients part-time at the Indian Health Service and tribal health facilities in the southwest and far northeast of the United States from 2017 to 2018. In early 2015, Gounder volunteered as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea for two months.

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Early on in her career, she worked in Brazil and southern Africa on screening for tuberculosis in high-risk HIV-infected and -uninfected populations, validating novel tests and algorithms for tuberculosis diagnosis and expedited treatment, and drug-drug interactions among pregnant women with TB and HIV.

While on faculty at Johns Hopkins, Gounder was the director for delivery for the Gates Foundation-funded Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic. She went on to serve as assistant commissioner of health for Tuberculosis at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. On November 9, 2020, Gounder was named as a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden.As of 2021, she is also an assistant professor at the NYU medical school.

Gounder has received multiple awards, including a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for her and her team’s work in the podcast category.

Gounder began attending Princeton University at 16 years old and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Molecular Biology in 1997. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2000 with her thesis “Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for tuberculosis”. Grounder earned her Doctor of Medicine Degree from University of Washington School of Medicine in 2004. While in medical school, she co-founded the International Health Group, which advocates for doctors training to serve disadvantaged people around the world. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Céline Gounder Age

Gounder was born in United States on 22 April, 1977 and is now 47 years old as of 2024.

Dr. Céline Gounder Height

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Dr. Céline Gounder Education

Gounder began attending Princeton University at 16 years old and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Molecular Biology in 1997. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2000 with her thesis “Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for tuberculosis”. Grounder earned her Doctor of Medicine Degree from University of Washington School of Medicine in 2004. While in medical school, she co-founded the International Health Group, which advocates for doctors training to serve disadvantaged people around the world. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Céline Gounder Family

She was born in United States to a French mother, Nicole Pantanelli, from Normandy and Raj Natarajan Gounder, a Tamil-Indian father from Perumpalayam near Erode. Gounder has two sibling sisters, Sabine Wallis and Stephanie Gounder.

Dr. Céline Gounder Husband

Gounder tied the knot with her husband, Grant Wahl in 2001 who suddenly died on 10 December, 2022 from an aortic aneurysm in Lusail, Qatar while covering the 2022 Fifa World Cup. He was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports based in New York City. They lived in New York with their two dogs.

Dr. Céline Gounder Children

There is no information about her having children of her own.