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.
Dr. Jonathan S. Serody is the Elizabeth Thomas Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chief of the Division of Hematology in the UNC School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Cellular Therapy Program. An internationally recognized physician-scientist, Dr. Serody’s research focuses on … Read more
Vera P. Luther, MD, MS is an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. She is an educator, antimicrobial steward, and informatician. She is passionate about teaching the next generation of healthcare professionals and enjoys all aspects of health professions education. In addition to serving … Read more
Dr. Indriati Hood-Pishchany is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hood Pishchany’s research focuses on microbial ecology in the vaginal microbiome. The scientific and medical communities have gained increasing understanding of the vast populations of microbes living in and on the human body, and the potential roles for these microbes in health and … Read more
Dr. Helen Lazear is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.
Dr. David Weiss received his PhD in Microbiology from New York University in 2004. Working under Dr. Arturo Zychlinsky, he studied how Toll-like Receptors work together to fight bacterial infections. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University under Drs. Stanley Falkow and Denise Monack, studying virulence mechanisms of Francisella and the role of the … Read more
Dr. Kimberly Powers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She uses epidemiological, statistical and mathematical modeling methods to study infectious disease transmission. Her work focuses on improving understanding of the HIV care continuum and using mathematical models to predict the impact of HIV … Read more
Matthew Ippolito, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Clinical Epidemiology for the Southern and Central Africa International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR). He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.D. from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He completed his Internal Medicine Internship and … Read more
Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is the Executive Director of Global One Health Academy and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. He is responsible for expanding NC State’s One Health research, education, and engagement efforts and developing evidence-based recommendations for tackling current and future global threats. He is an … Read more
Dr. Melissa Conrad is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her Research focuses on the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda and the molecular epidemiology of malaria transmission. Working closely with a team of researchers in Uganda, their group evaluates antimalarial resistance in Plasmodium falciparum collected from sites … Read more
Dr. Peyton Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Through Dr. Thompson's research as a clinician scientist, she has advocated for improving maternal and infant health through quality preventive measures against HBV and other vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. Her work with colleagues in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on HBV prevention has informed policy at … 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
