Joseph D. Tucker, MD, PhD, AM
Director of UNC Project-China
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Areas of Interest
Open science, crowdsourcing, participatory research, syphilis, HIV, hepatitis, China
About
Dr. Tucker is an infectious diseases physician and Professor at UNC Chapel Hill with a special interest in crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing has a group of individuals solve a problem and then share solutions with the public. He has contributed to several World Health Organization guidelines and serves as a member of the TDR Global Working Group. He has a special interest in China and has worked on collaborative research there for the past twenty years. Dr. Tucker has a strong commitment to mentorship and works in partnership with undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and early career researchers. Dr. Tucker has published 566 manuscripts and leads as PI or MPI US NIH grants totaling 29M USD.
EducationÂ
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Undergraduate
Swarthmore College
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Medical School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Residency
University of California San Francisco
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Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham and Women's Hospital
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PhD
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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AM
Harvard University