Raphael J. Landovitz

Raphael J. Landovitz is the Director of the UCLA Center for HIV Investigation, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition, he serves as a professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and as Director of the UCLA CARE Center, where he leads clinical research on HIV and other infectious diseases.

He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his residency and fellowship in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

His areas of expertise include HIV prevention, HIV treatment, the development of biomedical preventive strategies such as PrEP, and clinical research on treatments for infectious diseases, including COVID-19. He has served as principal investigator on multiple national and international clinical trials, including studies conducted by HPTN, ACTG, and CoVPN.

He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the International AIDS Society-USA and has participated in global health projects, such as the collaboration program between the CDC Vietnam and Harvard Medical School.

Furthermore, he has been actively involved in international medical training, including teaching rotations in Malawi.