Biography

Dr. Trini Mathew grew up in India and Nigeria and completed her medical school, MD with honors, from Tver State Medical Academy, Russia, after one year of language preparatory course in Zaporozhye/Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

She did her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine from Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY. She subsequently pursued her Infectious Diseases fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston, and completed her Master of Public Health through Harvard School of Public Health. During her ID fellowship, she worked with Partners In Health (PIH), Boston and Tomsk, Siberia, Russia on the intersection of TB, Alcohol Use Disorders and HIV.

Dr. Mathew has volunteered with Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) for 6 years on the IDSA Public Health committee and represented IDSA at Capitol Hill briefings on Immunizations. She has served as a member of the IDSA Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity task Force (2020- 2021). In 2022, Dr. Mathew was invited to serve a three-year term on the IDSA Leadership Development Committee. Dr. Mathew is also a member of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and volunteers on SHEA Community Based Healthcare Epidemiologists Task Force and was appointed Vice Chair in 2020 and Chair in 2021 (a two-year term), of the Public Policy and Government Affairs Committee of SHEA. In this role, she has also advocated for pandemic preparedness, and interacted with staff on Senate HELP Committee on PREVENT Pandemics Act. In 2022, she was appointed member of the new SHEA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

She has also served as a member of Advisory Committee for Elimination of TB, Connecticut Department of Public Health and participated in Work group on TB screening in Health Care Workers, as part of National TB Controller’s Association. Her initial question on utility of annual TB screening of US healthcare personnel (HCP), led to collaborations and publication of 2019 new US recommendations on TB screening for HCP in US.

For more than a decade, she has worked as a healthcare epidemiologist in academic and community settings in USA. She currently serves as the Medical Director of both Infection Prevention, Control and Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Corewell Health, Taylor, MI. She collaborates with multidisciplinary team and colleagues and has taught infectious diseases and infection prevention courses locally, regionally, and internationally. Her research interests are preventing health care associated infections, risk mitigation of outbreaks, promoting One Health, and optimizing vaccine uptake and integration of Human Factors and IPC. Dr. Mathew is Associate Professor, School of Medicine at OUWB and Wayne State University (adjunct). In 2022, she started working with colleagues at Wayne State University on a grant from MDHHS, providing infection prevention education in skilled nursing facilities. She is also collaborating with colleagues at Yale university on a recent CDC grant award on strengthening infection Prevention. She is also actively working on improving diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare settings.

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