Gema Dumitru, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor
Gema Dumitru, MD, MPH, retired from CDC where she was a Health Scientist with over two decades of public health experience. From 2011 to 2025 Dr. Dumitru worked within the Division of HIV Prevention (DHP) at the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. She contributed her work to the completion of several key recommendations in the field of HIV such as the “Updated Recommendations for HIV Prevention with Adults and Adolescents with HIV in the United States”, “Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV”, “Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States”.
More recently she completed the “Scoping review to inform the Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings” project which aims to identify gaps in the research knowledge base, map out key concepts related to pregnancy testing and report findings to inform future research.
Previously Dr. Dumitru contributed her work within the agency in several other departments and collaborated on focal projects for obesity prevention, asthma, and environmental health, while continuing to advance her expertise in public health and drawing on her medical background. Some of the related publications include “Public health interventions for asthma: an umbrella review”, “Effectiveness of home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for reducing asthma morbidity”, “Office-based motivational interviewing to prevent childhood obesity”.
Dr. Dumitru is committed to advancing population health and improving health outcomes through collaborative, data-driven approaches.
Education: MD - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania; MPH - Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Selected Publications:
Tanner, M. R., O'Shea, J. G., Byrd, K. M., Johnston, M., Dumitru, G. G., Le, J. N., Lale, A., Byrd, K. K., Cholli, P., Kamitani, E., Zhu, W., Hoover, K. W., & Kourtis, A. P. (2025). Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV - CDC Recommendations, United States, 2025. MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports, 74(1), 1–56. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.rr7401a1
Preexposure prophylaxis for the prevention of HIV infection in the United States – 2021 update clinical providers’ supplemen. Corporate Authors(s): United States. Public Health Service.; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Preexposure Prophylaxis Work Group; Published Date: December 2021. URL: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112359
Dumitru, G., Irwin, K., & Tailor, A. (2017). Updated Federal Recommendations for HIV Prevention With Adults and Adolescents With HIV in The United States: The Pivotal Role of Nurses. The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC, 28(1), 8–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jana.2016.09.011
Labre, M. P., Herman, E. J., Dumitru, G. G., Valenzuela, K. A., & Cechman, C. L. (2012). Public health interventions for asthma: an umbrella review, 1990-2010. American journal of preventive medicine, 42(4), 403–410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2011.11.016
Crocker, D. D., Kinyota, S., Dumitru, G. G., Ligon, C. B., Herman, E. J., Ferdinands, J. M., Hopkins, D. P., Lawrence, B. M., Sipe, T. A., & Task Force on Community Preventive Services (2011). Effectiveness of home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for reducing asthma morbidity: a community guide systematic review. American journal of preventive medicine, 41(2 Suppl 1), S5–S32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2011.05.012
View an expanded list of her publications on PubMed.