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.
Wendee Wechsberg, PhD, MS, will be keynote speaker for the World AIDS Day Conference on December 6, 2024. She is director of the RTI Global Gender Center and director of Substance Use, Gender, and Applied Research. The full agenda can be accessed here.
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
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
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
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
