Aninda Das

Dr. Das currently teaches courses in the MS (clinical track) in Global Medicine and the MPH programs in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences.Dr. Das was a recipient of the 2020 Community Service Grant from the CHEST Foundation (American College of Chest Physicians) for a project titled, “Screening for Childhood Tuberculosis in Children 0–4 Years of Age With Moderate to Severe Malnutrition in a Rural District of West Bengal, India”. He was also a recipient of 2024 Community Impact Grant from the CHEST Foundation (American College of Chest Physicians) for a project titled, “Connecting the dots – Can existing community health workers be incorporated in the screening for acute respiratory infections in children aged <5 years, and asthma in children aged 5-18 years?"Dr. Das is a practicing Board certified pediatrician and pediatric infectious disease sub-specialist. He completed his residency in general pediatrics and fellowship training in pediatric infectious diseases from Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. He graduated from the MPH program (Health Policy and Management) at the University of California Los Angeles in 2015 as an upsilon phi delta member of the National Honor Society for Healthcare Management. Dr. Das practices ambulatory pediatrics in Mission Hills (Los Angeles). He was a former in-patient consultant in pediatric infectious diseases at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, CA and Providence Cedars Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, CA.

• Empowering Community Health Workers to Increase Detection and Screening of Childhood Tuberculosis in a Rural Community of India. Indian J Public Health. 2025 Jul 01; 69(3):353-354.. View in PubMed
• A teenager with prolonged fever. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 Aug; 28(8):756, 760.. View in PubMed
• Meningoencephalitis in a previously healthy nine-year-old girl. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2003 Aug; 22(8):757, 761-2.. View in PubMed
• Differential role of cytosolic phospholipase A2 in the invasion of brain microvascular endothelial cells by Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes. J Infect Dis. 2001 Sep 15; 184(6):732-7.. View in PubMed
• Paecilomyces variotii in a pediatric patient with lung transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2000 Nov; 4(4):328-32.. View in PubMed
• Infections in burn injury. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2000 Aug; 19(8):737-8.. View in PubMed
• Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a four-year-old child with prune belly syndrome. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1996 Oct; 15(10):922-3, 925-6.. View in PubMed

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