The Institute partners with the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS Research on a weekly conference series featuring distinguished clinicians and scientists from UNC, local universities, and other national and international institutions. The topics are varied and appeal to professionals in infectious disease, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics and other global health-related disciplines.
Ronald P. Strauss, DMD PhD is the Adams Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Adams School of Dentistry. He served for 14 years as UNC’s Executive Vice Provost (2008-2022) and also was UNC’s Chief International Officer for a decade (2009-2018). He also holds joint appointments in three schools and is … Read more
Dr. Reza A. Ghiladi is a Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State University whose research bridges synthetic inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Haverford College, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and completed postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic and the University of … Read more
Save the Date! Presented by the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, this symposium will feature global health research from MD/PhD students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. Scholars from global sites around the world will share research and lead discussions. This is … Read more
Dr. Conrad has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from NYU School of Medicine, where she studied the population genomics of Trichomonas vaginalis. She did her postdoc at UCSF, focusing on the molecular epidemiology of antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda. As faculty at UCSF, she worked to characterize emerging artemisinin combination therapy resistance in Uganda, using … Read more
Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR, is an Assistant Professor and Fellowship Program Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. from Princeton University, where she majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and minored in Medical Spanish. She received her M.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she … Read more
Jose Munita is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of International Research, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG), UTHealth, Houston, TX. His ESI grant supports VENOUS, which is a prospective, multi-site observational cohort study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with bloodstream infections due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In addition, parallel collection of … Read more
Dan Olson is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases. His research interests are focused on how to measure the effectiveness of vaccines and other health interventions against emerging infectious diseases. This includes how to detect disease in a population using innovative surveillance tools (i.e., smartphones, crowd-sourcing), studying the true burden of disease (both the health … Read more
Dr. Joe Eron is a Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Eron is the Principal Investigator of the HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Unit at UNC-CH and the Director of the Clinical Core for the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has been part of the AIDS Clinical Trials … Read more
Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Special Advisor to the President. In addition, Dr. Malani is Deputy Editor and Director of Editorial Equity for JAMA and the JAMA Network. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the University of Michigan’s Chief Health Officer. … Read more
Brian Conlon is an Associate Professor. Antibiotic tolerance and antibiotic resistance are major challenges, resulting in growing numbers of deaths worldwide each year. The Conlon Lab focuses on antibiotic tolerance and resistance in the infection microenvironment. Here, nutrient availability, interactions between the pathogen and the host, as well as co-infecting or commensal microorganisms, can have … Read more
