Michael E. Herce, MD, MPH, MSCR
Associate Director of International Operations, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Director of Implementation Science, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Areas of Interest
My academic interests broadly relate to promoting global health equity by studying ways to improve implementation of HIV, tuberculosis, and COVID-19 clinical and public health programs and strategies to increase access to prevention, treatment, and care for marginalized populations disproportionately affected by these epidemics in the US and globally.
About
Dr. Herce applies the lens of implementation science to improve access to quality healthcare for populations who have been disproportionately burdened by HIV, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. In his research and programmatic work, he uses implementation and operations research methods to elucidate the effects of evidence-based practices and implementation strategies under “real-world” conditions and identify areas for improvement and innovation. Most of his work has been focused on underserved and historically marginalized populations, including incarcerated and justice-involved people, in Malawi and Zambia where I have lived and worked for over a decade.
In the news
The UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) and the UNC Gilling’s School of Global Public Health (GSGPH), will present a hybrid symposium on Friday, February 16, featuring research from MD/PhD students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from global sites around the world, starting in Bioinformatics 1131. A symposium guide can be found here. … Read more Led by Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), has funded the project “Preventing Infant Infections with Implementation Science in Malawi.” (PRI3SM). The program, in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, comprises three studies to address gaps in prevention services, striving for elimination of vertical … Read more
Q&A: Healthcare Delivery, Elimination of Malaria: Recurring Themes for Global Health Scholars Symposium
NICHD Grant Award Enables Researchers To Address Reasons For Vertical Transmission of HIV in Malawi As the Country Pursues Elimination Goals: Integrated Educational Cores Represent the Best of Capacity Building with Malawian Health Leaders
Education
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Undergraduate
University of Virginia
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Medical School
Yale School of Medicine
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Residency
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Fellowship
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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MPH
Harvard School of Public Health
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MSCR
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill