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Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH

Director of International Operations, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

International Director, UNC Project-Malawi

Professor of Medicine

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UNC Hospitals, Division of Infectious Diseases, Bioinformatics Building
CB# 7030
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH

Director of International Operations, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

International Director, UNC Project-Malawi

Professor of Medicine

Areas of Interest

Prevention, treatment and control of the traditional Sexually Transmitted Infectious (STI), gonorrhea and the pathogens/diseases causing genital ulcers; the intersection of HIV and the traditional STI's; TB and Malaria vaccine implementation; HIV prevention among people who inject drugs

About

Irving Hoffman has been on the UNC faculty since 1992. He has provided technical assistance to HIV and STI control programs in over fifteen countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He is the Director of International Operations for the IGHID and oversees the growth of the UNC academic centers in Malawi, Vietnam, Zambia, Nicaragua and China. He started UNC Project, Malawi with Mike Cohen and for the past 25 years, since its inception, he has been the international director of the UNC Project in Lilongwe. Hoffman is an author of over 260 peer-reviewed publications. He was a key investigator in HPTN 052 that proved the power of HIV treatment as prevention; he led the team in Malawi that tested the first partially effective malaria vaccine, RTSS. Hoffman was the co-chair of HPTN 074, a study among people who inject drugs conducted in Vietnam Indonesia and Ukraine that proved the efficacy of facilitated ART and drug abuse treatment on HIV transmission and survival. In Malawi he is currently the PI of a phase III gonorrhea vaccine trial; a programmatic grant in support of the Malawi Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Program; and a gonorrhea AMR surveillance program with the WHO.

Awards and Honors

  • UNC Faculty Mentoring, Award, Faculty to Student Mentoring 2019

In the news

  • Michaela-Malawi

    Undergraduate Student Evaluates HIV Programming in Malawi for Senior Thesis

    Michaela Tse is a Senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Global Studies and minoring in both Business and Japanese. This past summer, she spent eight weeks in Malawi to do research for her senior thesis, mentored by Professor Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH, UNC Project Malawi’s International Director. The opportunity came about after she joined the … Read more

  • Irving-Hoffman-Map-IAMIGHID

    IAMIGHID: Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH

    Irving Hoffman is a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, the International Director of UNC Project-Malawi, and Director of International Operations for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID). With more than 32 years of service to UNC’s global health community, Hoffman has worked in over 19 countries, providing technical assistance and … Read more

  • Alumni Gift Will Fund New Clinic in Malawi, Enhancing Research and Care for Reproductive Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections

    A generous gift from Hyman and Marietta Bielsky will fund a new clinic in Malawi for reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections. The new clinic will replace a 50-year-old infrastructure for sexually transmitted disease research and care, the place where UNC’s global health work began.   Long-lived friendships are special connections with those who knew you back when. But even … Read more

  • detail shot of rack of test tubes

    Grant boosts antimicrobial resistance efforts in Malawi

    The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and UNC Project-Malawi were awarded a $4.5 million grant by the UK’s Fleming Fund to strengthen Malawi’s One Health Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) program.  The grant will support the national AMR coordination committee and technical working groups, supporting ownership and alignment and scaling up a One Health AMR mentoring scheme. In the human … Read more

Education

  • Undergraduate

    Indiana University

  • PA

    Duke University

  • MPH

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Fellowship

    TB control at National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colo