The Institute partners with the University’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.
The conference takes place each Friday, September through May, from 9:15-10:15 a.m. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we’ll be offering the conference online via Zoom. An email with Zoom link is sent out weekly; sign up (at left) for email notices if you haven’t already.
Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, is Professor of Surgery, Division Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Executive Medical Director for UNC Healthcare Center for Transplant Care, Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program, and Director of the Chronic Pancreatitis & Autologous-Islet Cell Transplant Program. Dr. Desai is an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon with more than 15 years of experience. His special … Read more
Kenneth Mayer, MD, is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of The Fenway Institute where he teaches and mentors medical students, residents, and fellows. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, Gay … Read more
Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Grad’s work uses interdisciplinary methods, including basic microbiology, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology, to study how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, with publications in Science, … Read more