PERSON: Celine Gounder

Kaiser Family Foundation

Senior Fellow

Céline R. Gounder (born April 22, 1977) is an American physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health. She was a member of the Covid-19 Advisory Board transition team of then-incoming U.S. President Joe Biden. In 2022, she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.

Céline R. Gounder was born in the U.S. on April 22, 1977, the daughter of a French mother, Nicole Pantanelli, from Normandy and Raj Natarajan Gounder, a Tamil-Indian father from Perumpalayam near Erode. At age 16, she began attending Princeton University, and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in molecular biology. In 2000, she received a Master of Science degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with her thesis “Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic test for tuberculosis”. At the University of Washington School of Medicine, she earned a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2004. While in medical school, she co-founded the International Health Group, which advocates for doctors training to serve disadvantaged people around the world. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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