Andrea Kovacs

  • Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
  • Division Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • Director of the Maternal Child and Adolescent Center for Infectious Diseases and Virology (MCA)
  • Keck Medicine of USC
Office: (323) 865-1585

Expertise Summary

Expert in pediatric infectious diseases and pathogenesis of HIV and HCV co-infected women

Expertise

  • pathogenesis, transmission, treatment of HIV and associated co-infections
  • prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Languages

  • Hungarian

Additional Information

  • Principal Investigator of USC’s NICHD funded International Pediatric and Perinatal HIV Studies Network (IMPAACT)
  • Collaborates in national HIV studies including the Women’s Interagency HIV Study
  • NIH-funded research focuses on pathogenesis of HIV and HCV co-infected women
  • Participated in the development of local, state, and national guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV in children and HIV testing of pregnant women
  • Director of the MCA Research Virology Laboratory
  • Authored over 143 peer reviewed publications and over 155 other publications, abstracts, and book chapters