Pranay Sinha MD, SM

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 638-7578
pranay.sinha@bmc.org
psinha@bu.edu

Sections

Infectious Diseases

Biography

I’m an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and an Infectious Diseases physician at Boston Medical Center.

I trained at the University of Virginia (MD), Yale-New Haven Hospital (Internal Medicine residency, with distinction in Global Health and Equity), and Boston University (Infectious Diseases fellowship), and subsequently obtained a Master’s in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University.

My research focuses on tuberculosis — specifically, how undernutrition shapes TB outcomes in low-resource settings. I work with collaborators in India, Benin, and Togo on integrating social determinants into TB care, looking for cost-effective nutritional support that can actually be delivered at scale.

I co-founded and co-chair the TB-undernutrition Working Group at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, a group of researchers, clinicians, and advocates that has helped push undernutrition into the mainstream conversation about TB comorbidities. That work has led to me serving as a technical resource person for the WHO and partnering with the governments of India, Benin, and Togo to expand nutritional and anti-helminthic support for people with TB.

I am also increasingly interested in the impact of social protections for TB-affected households and the interface between climate change and infectious diseases.

At BMC I teach medical students, residents, and fellows, and I’ve had the chance to mentor more than thirty trainees so far. Whatever I’ve managed in academic medicine I owe to mentors who were generous with their time, and paying that forward has turned out to be one of the best parts of the job.

I live in Boston with my wife and our two dogs (Doxy and Shih-Tzu Samiasis) who are, depending on the day, either excellent research assistants or my most demanding patients

Websites

Education

MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Health Policy Management, SM/ScM, Harvard School of Public Health

Biology, BS, Adelphi University

Publications

Published on 5/11/2026

Saunders MJ, McQuaid CF, Sinha P, Martinez L, Seddon JA, Dodd PJ. Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence averted by eliminating undernutrition in adults: a modelling study. Lancet Glob Health. 2026 May 11. PMID: 42114532.

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Published on 5/4/2026

Gallini J, Singh UB, Dauphinais M, Sarkar S, Carwile M, Kumar R, Rao R, Chaudhary A, McQuaid CF, Maloomian K, Sinha S, Mehta S, Dowdy DW, Liu AF, Linas BP, Horsburgh CR, White LF, Sinha P. Cost-effectiveness of in-kind nutritional support for impoverished persons with tuberculosis to reduce mortality and disengagement from care in India: a modelling study. BMJ Glob Health. 2026 May 04; 11(5). PMID: 42082204.

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Published on 4/22/2026

Shah P, Pischel L, Sack B, Abdul Basith KM, Dauphinais MR, Jain K, Martins MF, Wallace S, Karoly M, Lakshminarayanan S, Cintron C, Subramanian S, Sahay A, Koura KG, Brooks R, Shenoi S, Chinnakali P, Sinha P. Air conditioning, ventilation, and respiratory virus transmission potential in South India. Int J Infect Dis. 2026 Apr 22; 168:108724. PMID: 42031292.

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Published on 3/17/2026

Rao PS, Prakash Babu S, Ezhumalai K, Knudsen S, Ramakrishnan J, Joseph N, Cintron C, Dauphinais MR, Narasimhan PB, Salgame P, Hochberg NS, Hom DL, Heysell SK, Horsburgh CR, Ellner JJ, Sinha P, Sarkar S. Rifampin Exposure in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women With Tuberculosis in India. J Infect Dis. 2026 Mar 17; 233(3):594-597. PMID: 40925610.

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Published on 2/4/2026

Sinha P, Bhargava M, Dauphinais MR, Carwile ME, Horsburgh CR, Singh UB, Sarkar S, Bhargava A, Menzies NA. In-kind Nutritional Supplementation for Persons With Drug-susceptible Tuberculosis and Their Household Contacts Would be Cost-effective for Reducing Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality in Jharkhand, India: A Modeling Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 04; 81(6):1126-1134. PMID: 40833109.

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Published on 1/29/2026

Tabackman A, Cowan S, Calderwood C, Sinha P. Reframing TB Care: A Perspective on Multimorbidity-Centered Care for People with TB. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2026 Jan 29; 11(2). PMID: 41746007.

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Published on 12/4/2025

Kumar R, Sinha P, Krishnan A, Singh M, Singh A, Guleria R, Singh UB. Energy dense nutritional supplements improve weight gain among malnourished adults with drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis: An open-label randomized controlled trial in Faridabad, India. Int J Infect Dis. 2026 Feb; 163:108286. PMID: 41352758.

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Published on 11/23/2025

Carwile M, Jain K, Dauphinais M, Cintron C, Janarthanan, Locks LM, Maloomian K, Prakash Babu S, Rajkumari N, R M, Narasimhan PB, Sabin L, Sinha P, Lakshminarayanan S. Tuberculosis- learning about experience with nutritional supplementation (TB LENS): Perspectives on a nutritional supplementation for persons with TB and their household contacts. Glob Public Health. 2025 Dec 31; 20(1):2576758. PMID: 41276883.

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Published on 10/27/2025

Saunders MJ, Sinha P, Cegielski JP, Clark RA, Seddon JA, Martinez L, Bhargava M, Bhargava A, White RG, Houben RMGJ, McQuaid CF. Tuberculosis and undernutrition: improving estimates to reinforce the policy imperative. Lancet Infect Dis. 2025 Dec; 25(12):1270-1272. PMID: 41167206.

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Published on 10/15/2025

Kagemann CH, Prakash Babu S, Ezhumalai K, Chakraborty A, Raghupathy K, Kamat SS, Viswanathan V, Huey SL, Narasimhan PB, Sinha P, Yu EA, Mehta S, Sarkar S. Metabolite dynamics over the course of anti-tuberculosis treatment in individuals with mild and severe tuberculosis. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025; 5(10):e0004925. PMID: 41091730.

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