Maternal and Child Health | Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, MPH

Director, Office of Global Health Education
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology

Childhood diarrhea; enteric viruses (norovirus, sapovirus, rotavirus); childhood nutrition; vaccine-preventable infections
Benjamin H. Chi, MD, MSc

Associate Director, IGHID Office of Fellowships and Training
Annie Louise Wilkerson MD ’36 Distinguished Professor

HIV, women’s health, clinical trials, and implementation science.
Lameck Chinula, MBBS, MMED

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Malawi

HIV and cervical cancer prevention
Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Diagnostic testing in resource-constrained settings related to antibiotic stewardship and pediatric respiratory illness
Kristina De Paris, PhD

Director, CFAR HIV/STD Laboratory Core
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

HIV pathogenesis and vaccine testing; Pediatric HIV
Stephanie M. DeLong, PhD

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

HIV prevention and treatment, PASC
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Director of Pediatric Global Health

Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine
Margaret Kasaro, MD, MBChB, MSc

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

HIV prevention, pregnancy outcomes, improvement of maternal care in LMICs
Stephanie L. Martin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition

Infant feeding and nutrition
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Cervical cancer prevention and treatment
Tisungane Mvalo, MD

Pediatric Director, UNC Project-Malawi
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Technology-based strategies to improve newborn mortality
Audrey Pettifor, PhD

Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC

HIV prevention and care interventions among adolescents and young adults
Janey Phelps, MD

Global Anesthesia Program Director
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Benjamin Pokaprakarn, PhD

Research Assstant Professor
OBGYN Global Health
Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings
Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health Leadership and Practice
Yuri V. Sebastião, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Women’s Health, Perinatal Epidemiology
Bridget Spelke, MD

Assistant Professor, Global Women's Health, Department of Ob-Gyn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chief Scientific Officer, UNC-Global Projects Zambia

Postpartum hypertension and mental health
Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, MD

Clarke-Pearson Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director, UNC Global Women's Health

Obstetric ultrasound, Preterm birth, HIV in pregnancy,
Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Family planning, Cervical cancer screening and treatment
Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship

Vaccine-preventable diseases including Hep B and Hep C
Linda Van Le, MD

Professor, of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Gynecologic Cancers
Bellington Vwalika, MD, MSc

Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kate Westmoreland, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Lymphona in adolescents