MUSC Global & Public Health Week April 1-5, 2019 |
Don't miss this weeklong series of events, sponsored by the MUSC Center for Global Health and the Department of Public Health Sciences, to hear leaders in the field discuss how they are tackling unique global health challenges.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Tuesday, April 2nd at noon
Dr. Thomas Quinn, MD, MSc
Associate Director of International Research, NIH
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Dr. Thomas Quinn is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and Head of the Section on International HIV and STD Research in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is also Associate Director for International Research for the Division of Intramural Research at NIAID. In addition he is Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Professor of International Health, Epidemiology, and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology in The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. In 2006 he was appointed founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health.
Dr. Quinn's research interests have involved laboratory and field investigations that have helped define the biological factors involved in sexual and perinatal transmission of HIV and STDs, the natural history and treatment of HIV infections, and the molecular epidemiology of HIV in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine where he was Chair of the Board of Global Health. He is a member of the Association of American Physician and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He has been an Advisor/Consultant on HIV and STDs to the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is an author of over 1000 publications on HIV, STDs, and infectious diseases.