Amesh Adalja Age, Married Wife【 Wiki Bio 】Parents Family, Education

Name Amesh Adalja

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB October 15, 1975. As of 2025, he is around 50 years old.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

A man of many talents and qualifications, Amesh Adalja is a Senior Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. His preliminary work profile is of someone who works with infectious diseases.
He is a physician working on pandemic policy, emerging infections, and the prevention of bioterrorism. Amesh is a Board-certified member in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine.
Currently, one of the top voices in international discussions on the pandemic that ailed the world in 2020 – Coronavirus, Amesh says that containment of the virus is not easy and might be closed impossible.

Personal Life : Family, School and Education

Amesh was born into an immigrant family from India in Philadelphia, USA. He has two siblings – Aaron Adalja (brother) and Anita Adalja (sister).
Amesh’s parents’ names are Ashok Adalja (father) and Varsha Mehta (mother). Both Ashok and Varsha are highly qualified doctors. At the age of two, the Adalja family moved to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he spent his remaining childhood.
He completed his BS in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the year 1995.
Amesh completed his MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC), in 2002.
Dr. Adalja is said to have completed two fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh. One is in infectious diseases, for which he served as a chief fellow, and the other one is in critical care medicine.

Work Experience : Career, Salary and Net Worth

Presently Amesh’s LinkedIn profile says he is the Principal at Tracking Zebra, LLC. He is associated in the capacity of consulting.
As Assistant Professor- Adjunct at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, his work focused on tackling emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity.
Amesh has served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of plague, botulism, and anthrax in mass casualty settings. He also has previously contributed to working on the system of care for infectious disease emergencies and as an external advisor to the New York City Health and Hospital Emergency Management Highly Infectious Disease training program. He has also been active in a FEMA working group on nuclear disaster recovery.
He holds several enviable positions and is a part of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Precision Medicine working group.
Some of the other associations he is a part of include the American College of Emergency Physicians Pennsylvania Chapter’s EMS & Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness Committee and also the Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps.
He was also sent to Haiti while he was a part of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Disaster Medical System after the 2010 earthquake.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

In an interview Amesh says his favorite storybook was The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur, which is about the discovery of the rabies vaccine.
Amesh was named as one of STAT News’s top “13 Physicians to Follow on Twitter (now called X).
Being from the field of academia, Amesh has published in numerous journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
His writings can be read at the website TrackingZebra, where he blogs regularly.