Sponsored by the Center for AIDS Research, the panel meeting "Intersection of Transgender Research and Policy" will discuss how research can be used to inform policy, and how to conduct research with trans communities in challenging policy environments. Ames Simmons will serve as moderator. Register here.
Researchers with the Institute have been working with emerging pathogens for many years, in West Africa, with Lassa Fever, and Ebola, in Liberia. In 2022, this expertise led to UNC Hospitals becoming a designated treatment center for patients with highly infectious diseases. Should a civilian or a member of the military arrive at RDU Airport, … Read more
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Hastie, M.D., is a fellow with the UC San Diego ID Department interested in pursuing a career in HIV medicine. She studied physics at the University of Colorado Boulder and attended medical school at Emory University. She completed her internal medicine residency at UC San Diego and stayed for an additional year as … Read more
Bill Miller, MD, PhD, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and member of the Institute with a focus on the intersection of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and substance use. Also trained as an infectious diseases physician, he has worked globally and domestically to prevent transmission of HIV and STIs, and improve the care of people with … Read more
Becky White, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of HIV Services, North Carolina Department of Corrections. Her work is focused on treatment and prevention of HIV/STDs in incarcerated persons and African-Americans.
Hematology Fellow Dr. Luke Eastburg will be the featured speaker for this Global Health Forum, sponsored by the Office of Global Health and Education. This is a hybrid event. The forum will take place in Roper Hall, Room 4302. If attending in person, please RSVP by 12 noon on Thursday, Sept. 19 to reserve a … Read more
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Myron S. Cohen, MD, is the Yeargan-Bate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Epidemiology. He is Associate Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Global Health Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. His multidisciplinary research group has worked over many years to characterize the ability of different classes of antiretroviral agents to block HIV … Read more
Diana Zychowski, MD, MPH, is a fourth-year infectious disease/postdoctoral fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her primary research focus is on the intersection of tick-borne infections, public health surveillance, and population health sciences.
Neil Ferguson, PhD, is Professor of Mathematical Biology and Head of Department for the London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research at the Imperial College London. His research aims to improve understanding of the epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A key practical focus is the analysis … Read more
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR, is an Associate Professor of Medicine-Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology at UNC and serves as an Associate Program Director for the UNC Infectious Diseases Fellowship. She did her infectious disease training at UNC (2009-2012), afterwards joining the faculty and helping to found the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL). … Read more
Many ID faculty and fellows will be participating in ID Week. Get an advance look at their poster topics, here! ID Week 2024 will take place in Los Angeles, California, Oct. 16-20.
Dr. Peter Kilmarx is deputy director of the Fogarty International Center (part of the National Institutes of Health) and an expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention. During his tenure at Fogarty he has led analysis of NIH global health activities, built coalitions with high-level NIH and external stakeholders, and represented the Center and … Read more
Emily W. Gower, PhD, is Associate Professor of Opthamalogy and Epidemiology, working in global health and ocular epidemiology. Her primary area of research interest is in improving trichiasis surgery outcomes for individuals with trachoma, which is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. She has led multiple clinical trials in Africa, and an ongoing clinical … Read more
This Global Health Forum is sponsored by the Office of Global Health Education. Speaker TBA.
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, is a member of the Institute, a Professor in the Department of Microbiology, and a Program Director in Virology and Global Oncology, at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The goal of his research is to understand cancers that are caused by Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV).
Sonia Napravnik, PhD, is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology with experience in HIV clinical and epidemiologic research focused on analytic methods using observational clinical data. She oversees the UNC CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort study and provides leadership to clinical cohort collaborations.
Michael Satlin, MD, MS, FIDSA, is an infectious diseases physician and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is the Clinical Director of the Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program at Weill Cornell. He completed medical school at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and internal medicine residency and … Read more
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
This Global Health Forum is sponsored by the Office of Global Health Education. Speaker TBA.
