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Damani Piggott

Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships, Executive Director, Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

Damani Piggott, MD, PhD is the Inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University and Executive Director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative. Dr. Piggott is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the United States, the Caribbean, West Africa, and South Africa. He is actively engaged in the clinical care of patients with HIV. His research program centers on understanding the biological, behavioral, and social determinant pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV.

Dr. Piggott received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Spanish from Morehouse College. He subsequently obtained his PhD degree in Immunology and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed clinical residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Piggott is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.