Tessa M. Andermann, MD, MPH, is focus on how intestinal microbiome-host interactions impact infectious complications and other outcomes in patients with hematologic malignancies. Her goal is to develop microbiome-targeted therapies for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in these and other immunocompromised patient populations.
Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine who studies the molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. He is broadly interested in applying cutting-edge molecular and genomic tools to solve problems faced by marginalized populations across the globe. His work has focused on malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other sites, … Read more
Rafael Felipe Da Costa Vieira, PhD, is an assistant professor of One Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences and CIPHER at UNC-Charlotte. Dr. Vieira's research focuses on the ecoepidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD), genetic diversity of TBD pathogens, tick microbiome, pathogen discovery, and One Health. Over the last 12 years, his … Read more
Richard Reithinger, PhD, MSc, a distinguished fellow with the Research Triangle Institute, is a practical, innovative leader and extensively published author in the field of malaria and other vector-borne disease epidemiology, case management, prevention, and control. He is an epidemiologist with extensive field-based experience managing infectious disease programs in Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America, … Read more
Rajeev K. Bais, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the Carolina Survivor Clinic, providing comprehensive care to refugees who are survivors of torture. Dr. Bais is developing a Global Health and Human Rights Initiative in the Division of Infectious … Read more
Join the Institute and Center for Aids Research (CFAR) for a special program on World AIDS Day 2023, celebrating the strength, resilience and diversity of the HIV community, and the advances of many UNC investigators who are working at the forefront of AIDS research.
Erika Samoff, MPH, PhD, is the HIV/STD/Hepatitis Lead Epidemiologist with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. Taylor Swankie, MPH, is a data analyst/epidemiologist with the N.C. Department of Public Health.
Matthew Painschab, MD, Assistant Professor Medicine and Director of Adult Oncology Research at UNC Project Malawi, bridges two worlds as a clinician and researcher, treating patients with hematologic malignancies in Chapel Hill and Malawi. His primary research interest is in HIV-associated cancers, especially virally mediated cancers including multicentric Castleman disease, lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma.
Anne Piantadosi, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the emergence, evolution, and pathogenesis of viruses of clinical and public health importance, with a particular interest in arboviruses. Her projects combine clinical/translational, laboratory, and computational approaches. Current projects … Read more
Emmanuel Singogo, MSc, PhD, and Sharon Weir, PhD, MPH, Carolina Population Center Emeritus Fellow, retired from the Department of Epidemiology will present the Friday Conference lecture. Dr. Singogo is an experienced researcher and medical statistician, with 15yrs+ of experience managing large research portfolios at national-level, and managing multidisciplinary research teams in Malawi. Over the decade, he … Read more
Scott Smith, PhD, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research is focused on the dengue virus, vaccines, immunology and viral pathogenesis.
Cristina Lanzas, DVM, PhD, is Professor of Infectious Disease in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology and Associate Director for the Emerging and Infectious Diseases research area at the Comparative Medicine Institute at NCSU. Her lab focuses on infectious disease epidemiology and modeling of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. She leads one of the interdisciplinary teams within … Read more
Audrey Pettifor, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, a fellow in the Carolina Population Center and an honorary professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is currently the associate chair and program lead for the infectious diseases epidemiology concentration at the UNC Department of Epidemiology. … Read more
Yuri Fedoriw, MD, Labcorp Distinguished Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Research and Academic Affairs, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Co-Director of UNC Project-Malawi Cancer Program, and Global Cancer Pathology Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fedoriw's research interests focus on the immunologic and genetic mechanisms of lymphomagenesis, particularly in the setting … Read more
Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, MBBCh, PhD, DTM&H, is Research Professor and Director of Research at the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests span the intersections between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and infectious diseases, particularly in adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). She has worked on several … Read more
Courtney Yuen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Social Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yuen has been involved in important research on the global epidemiology of childhood drug-resistant tuberculosis, contributing to estimates of the global burden of childhood multidrug-resistant and isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis and the risk of disease among children who … Read more
Noah Fongwen, MD, MPH, heads International Diagnostics for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Africa Innovation Hub at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Research, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine.
The following STI/HIV T-32 trainees will present their projects during Friday Conference. Cynthia Thomas: "Determining vaccine antigens that promote protection from Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection." Cynthia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Born in Haiti, she emigrated to the United States when she was very young. She attended the University of … Read more
The following fellows in the Training in Infectious Disease Technology (TIDE) T-32 Program will present their projects during the Friday Conference Series. Diana Zychowski, MD, PhD, is an Infectious Disease Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research focus is on the intersection of tick-borne infections, public health surveillance, and population … Read more
