Dr. Preeti Mehrotra

Preeti Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is a dually trained adult and pediatric infectious diseases physician and healthcare epidemiologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where she also serves as Senior Medical Director in the Division of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Mehrotra’s clinical focus spans adult and pediatric infectious diseases care, hospital epidemiology and infection prevention, and antimicrobial stewardship and immunization practice. Her research interests center on environmental sustainability in infection prevention, supply-chain resilience for healthcare preparedness, and the health policy, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship. She serves as the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and is a faculty affiliate of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Dr. Mehrotra earned her MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, completed combined Internal Medicine & Pediatrics residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and completed a combined adult and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at BIDMC and Boston Children’s Hospital, where she was the inaugural fellow in the program; she also received an MPH in Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.