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
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