The T32 STI/HIV Training Program trains fellows to conduct STI/HIV research, fostering skills in interdisciplinary research. The following will present their work: Teresa (Tess) Filipowicz, MPH; Alexander Commanday, MD; and Lauren Graybill, PhD, MS (virtually)
Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS, Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, specializes in clinical informatics. She is co-director of Informatics and Data Science with the TraCS Institute. This is a hybrid event, held in Bioinformatics 2127 and Zoom.
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Melinda Pettigrew, PhD, is Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of respiratory tract infections, the microbiome, and the One Health threat of antibiotic resistance. The bacterial pathogens that she studies asymptomatically colonize mucosal surfaces, such as the tissues that line the inside of the nose, and … Read more
Join the UNC CFAR SBIS Core for a discussion with UNC School of Medicine and School of Public Health faculty addressing how they made the transition from global to local or vice versa and how they have managed the process both professionally and personally. First with our main speaker, Dr. Sarah Rutstein, and later with … Read more
Amy Mathers, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, and Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship at UVA School of Medicine. Dr. Mather's research focuses on the use of whole genome sequencing to explore the molecular epidemiology of mobile genetic elements associated with genes of drug resistance, clinical microbiology detection of … Read more
The CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort will present an AI & Data Science Workshop about using ChaptGPT as a research assistant. This will be led by Peter Leese, director of the TraCS Data Science Lab and data scientist Josh Fuchs. Hybrid event, held in Bioinformatics 5127 and by Zoom.
Dr. Sarah Joseph is a virologist and evolutionary biologist with extensive experience examining HIV-1 evolution in the CNS and the establishment of long-lived HIV-1 reservoirs. She received a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina where she has faculty … Read more
This CFAR webinar will feature the REPRIEVE Study. Register here.
Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. She is also a Professor at the Brown School of Public Health, and Director of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research. Her area of expertise is women with HIV, and she has been funded by the … Read more
An overview of this year's symposium has been posted here: Join us in Bioinformatics 1131 for this annual event featuring research from MD/PhD students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from global sites around the world, hosted by the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and Gillings School of Global Public Health. See … Read more
Lance Thurlow, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from Kansas State University in the lab of Lynn Hancock where he studied vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis biofilm formation and immune evasion.
Ariel Christensen is the Director of the NC Wastewater Monitoring Network (NCWMN) at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Concurrently, she is a fourth-year PhD Student in Epidemiology. Using wastewater-based epidemiology, the NCWMN tests for multiple pathogens (SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, Influenza B, and Respiratory syncytial virus, and Mpox) to track burden of … Read more
Takhona Hlatshwako, MSc BSPH (Left), is a PhD student with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a graduate research assistant with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. As a student in Health Policy and Management, she is specializing in decision sciences and outcomes research. Her research focuses on the … Read more
Angelique Boutzoukas, MD, MPH, is a pediatric infectious disease specialist and pediatric clinical researcher. Her research interests are centered around finding the optimal ways to manage infections and minimize harms to patients. Recognizing the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance, she is particularly interested in finding the right dose and duration of antibiotics that children should … Read more
Mark Sherlock, MBBS, MRCP, MPH is a health advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and health programme manager for MSF activities in Nigeria, Jordan and Iraq. His career has focused on delivering medical care and implementing public health interventions in complex emergencies, including conflict zones, epidemic outbreaks, and regions with limited healthcare infrastructure. Mark’s work … Read more
M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD, is professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology. She is also the director of the UNC Microbiome Core and an adjunct professor of nutrition. As a microbiologist with extensive experience in bacterial physiology and gut microbes, she has worked on research projects focused on the functional genomics of … Read more
Thomas Holland, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at Duke University Medical Center. He concurrently completed a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship in Eldoret, Kenya where he investigated the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Evolutionary Biology and his MD from Wake Forest University before completing Internal … Read more
Wendee Wechsberg, PhD, MS, will be keynote speaker for the World AIDS Day Conference on December 6, 2024. She is director of the RTI Global Gender Center and director of Substance Use, Gender, and Applied Research. The full agenda can be accessed here.
Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Grad’s work uses interdisciplinary methods, including basic microbiology, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology, to study how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, with publications in Science, The New England Journal … Read more
