Presented by David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases Wohl is site leader of UNC's Global Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Group at Chapel Hill. For the past year, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wohl has been serving as medical director of the COVID-19 vaccination clinics at UNC Health’s Friday Center and Hillsborough … Read more
Presented by Larry Corey, MD Past President and Director, Professor of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Professor, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Corey is an internationally renowned expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development. His research focuses on herpes viruses, HIV, the novel coronavirus, and other viral infections, … Read more
Presented by Brenna L. Hughes, MD, MSc. Hughes serves as chief of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Vice Chair for Quality and Obstetrics at Duke University. She joined Duke in 2016 from Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., where she was associate professor, director of the maternal fetal medicine fellowship, … Read more
Srilatha Edupuganti, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of infectious diseases at Emory University, where she leads HIV vaccine development as the Hope Clinic Clinical Research Site Leader for the Emory Clinical Trials Unit. She has a broad interest in vaccine development for multiple pathogens, including flaviviruses, influenza, and COVID-19, and she leads multiple translational … Read more
Presented by Dirk Dittmer, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC
Audrey Pettifor, PhD, is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on sexual behavior and determinants of HIV/STI infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Since spring 2020, she has been advising the UNC administration on various aspects of COVID-19 and the return to campus.
Chris Sellers, Michael McNeil, Chris Evans
Presented by Matt Collins, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine In Emory University's Division of Infectious Diseases
Tim Sheahan, PhD, is a virologist working at the host-pathogen interface to develop new methods of viral control. After earning a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from the University of New Hampshire in 1999, he moved to Boston to try to make a career in music but soon realized he enjoyed pipetting more than playing guitar. … Read more
Nick Brazeau, Imperial College of London
Becky White, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of medicine in UNC's Division of Infectious Diseases and co-director of HIV Services for the North Carolina Department of Corrections. White's research focuses on the dynamic interface between public health and medicine. She was one of the leading physicians who described the association between the release … Read more
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Matthew R. Vogt is an assistant professor in pediatrics (infectious diseases) and microbiology & immunology at UNC. He earned his degrees at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. His thesis work in the laboratory of Michael Diamond, MD, PhD focused on the study of antibody modification of West Nile virus infection. He completed a … Read more
Dan Wu, MBBS, MSc, PhD, is a Newton International Fellow and a research fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, supported by The Academy of Medical Sciences and Newton Fund. Wu has a special research interest in using innovative strategies to promote public health. She has been intensively engaged in designing and implementing … Read more
Heidi J. Larson, MA, PhD, is an anthropologist and director of The Vaccine Confidence Project; professor of anthropology, risk and decision science in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; clinical professor in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington; and guest professor at the University of … Read more
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR is an assistant professor of medicine in UNC's Division of Infectious Diseases. She trained in UNC's ID fellowship at UNC and joined the faculty in 2013. Before COVID, she was pursuing clinical and translational studies on drug-resistant malaria and malaria transmission in Cambodia and Tanzania. In April 2020 she launched Co-HOST, a … Read more
Edward Browne, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases Browne holds a master's of science from the University of Auckland and a doctorate from Princeton University. His research interest in in the replication and pathogenesis of HIV. He is focused specifically on understanding the nature of latent HIV reservoirs and in developing new tools to … Read more
Luther Bartelt, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Heather Root, MD Infectious Diseases Alena Markmann, MS, MD, PhD Clinical fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases
Mina Hosseinipour, MD Scientific Director, UNC Project-Malawi
Myron Cohen, MD Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases https://globalhealth.unc.edu/2020/07/nih-awards-cohen-fhi-9-2-million-for-development-of-covid-prevention-studies/
