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Joseph D. Tucker, MD, PhD, AM

Director of UNC Project-China

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

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Office:
130 Mason Farm Road, 2nd floor
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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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.

Education 

  • Undergraduate

    Swarthmore College

  • Medical School

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Residency

    University of California San Francisco

  • Fellowship

    Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • PhD

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • AM

    Harvard University