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Friday Conference: Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae: Challenges and Opportunities

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Department 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, The New England Journal … Read more

OGHE: Global Health Forum

Roper Hall 150 Medical Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This Global Health Forum is sponsored by the Office of Global Health Education. Speaker TBA.

PAUSE Seminar: Updates On Management of S. Aureus Bacteremia

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Thomas Holland, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at Duke University Medical Center. He concurrently completed a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship in Eldoret, Kenya where he investigated the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Evolutionary Biology and his MD from Wake Forest University before completing Internal … Read more

Friday Conference: Updates in Microbiome Research, Impact On Human Health

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD, is professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology. She is also the director of the UNC Microbiome Core and an adjunct professor of nutrition. As a microbiologist with extensive experience in bacterial physiology and gut microbes, she has worked on research projects focused on the functional genomics of … Read more

Friday Conference: Noma, a Neglected Tropical Disease

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Mark Sherlock, MBBS, MRCP, MPH is a health advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and health programme manager for MSF activities in Nigeria, Jordan and Iraq. His career has focused on delivering medical care and implementing public health interventions in complex emergencies, including conflict zones, epidemic outbreaks, and regions with limited healthcare infrastructure. Mark’s work … Read more

PAUSE Conference: Antimicrobial Resistance in Transplant Recipients

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Angelique Boutzoukas, MD, MPH, is a pediatric infectious disease specialist and pediatric clinical researcher. Her research interests are centered around finding the optimal ways to manage infections and minimize harms to patients. Recognizing the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance, she is particularly interested in finding the right dose and duration of antibiotics that children should … Read more

Friday Conference: Youth Engagement in HIV Research

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Takhona Hlatshwako, MSc BSPH (Left), is a PhD student with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a graduate research assistant with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. As a student in Health Policy and Management, she is specializing in decision sciences and outcomes research. Her research focuses on the … Read more

OGHE: Global Health Forum

Roper Hall 150 Medical Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This Global Health Forum is sponsored by the Office of Global Health Education. Speaker TBA.

Friday Conference: Monitoring Wastewater to Understand Disease Trends in Communities

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Ariel Christensen is the Director of the NC Wastewater Monitoring Network (NCWMN) at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Concurrently, she is a fourth-year PhD Student in Epidemiology. Using wastewater-based epidemiology, the NCWMN tests for multiple pathogens (SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, Influenza B, and Respiratory syncytial virus, and Mpox) to track burden of … Read more

PAUSE Seminar: The Diabetic Infection Environment Promotes Antibiotic Treatment Failure

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Lance Thurlow, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from Kansas State University in the lab of Lynn Hancock where he studied vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis biofilm formation and immune evasion.

See Link to Story Below – 3rd Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

An overview of this year's symposium has been posted here: Join us in Bioinformatics 1131 for this annual event featuring research from MD/PhD students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from global sites around the world, hosted by the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and Gillings School of Global Public Health. See … Read more

Cervical Cancer Death and Disability: A Hidden Public Problem in Resource Poor Settings

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. She is also a Professor at the Brown School of Public Health, and Director of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research. Her area of expertise is women with HIV, and she has been funded by the … Read more

OGHE: Global Health Forum

Roper Hall 150 Medical Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This Global Health Forum is sponsored by the Office of Global Health Education. Speaker TBA.

A New Type of Nonsuppressible Viremia: Persistent Expression of Drug-Sensitive HIV-1 From Macrophage in Participants on ART

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Sarah Joseph is a virologist and evolutionary biologist with extensive experience examining HIV-1 evolution in the CNS and the establishment of long-lived HIV-1 reservoirs. She received a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina where she has faculty … Read more

CFAR: ChatGPT As Your Research Assistant

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort will present an AI & Data Science Workshop about using ChaptGPT as a research assistant. This will be led by Peter Leese, director of the TraCS Data Science Lab and data scientist Josh Fuchs. Hybrid event, held in Bioinformatics 5127 and by Zoom.

PAUSE Seminar: Role of Mobile Genetic Elements in AMR

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Amy Mathers, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, and Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship at UVA School of Medicine. Dr. Mather's research focuses on the use of whole genome sequencing to explore the molecular epidemiology of mobile genetic elements associated with genes of drug resistance, clinical microbiology detection of … Read more

Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)

Investigators with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) are participating in the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco, California, March 9-12.  Discover how IGHID members are contributing to the conference.

UNC CFAR SBIS Spring 2025 Networking Event: Managing Global and Local Research Careers

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join the UNC CFAR SBIS Core for a discussion with UNC School of Medicine and School of Public Health faculty addressing how they made the transition from global to local or vice versa and how they have managed the process both professionally and personally. First with our main speaker, Dr. Sarah Rutstein, and later with … Read more

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