INFECTIOUS DISEASES Global Health

Global health challenges transcend language, culture, economics, environment, and borders. Taking a multifaceted approach to addressing the world’s most pressing health issues requires innovation, collaboration, and inclusion. Our experts partner with colleagues in more than 16 countries to deliver exceptional patient care that respects cultural differences, to conduct research designed to improve understanding of infectious diseases worldwide, and to engage the next generation of investigators to improve health outcomes in their own communities.

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Infectious Disease Researchers

  • Bob Bollinger, MD

    • Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: <p>Global health workforce education and capacity building; identifying biological and behavioral risk factors for HIV and TB transmission; characterizing the clinical progression and treatment of HIV and related infections; development/evaluation of novel point-of-care diagnostics and implementation of research projects to optimize healthcare capacity and delivery in resource-limited settings.</p>

  • Laurence Borand, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Richard E. Chaisson, MD

    • Director, Center for Tuberculosis Research
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Publications

  • Larry William Chang, MD MPH

    • Co-Director, Center for Community and Global Health in Infectious Diseases (CCGHE-ID)
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: HIV implementation science, Mobile Health

  • Steven J. Clipman, MSPH PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Chagas Disease, Hepatitis C, HIV, Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Research Publications

  • Kunchok Dorjee, MD PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Valeria Fabre, MD

    • Associate Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Diagnostic Stewardship

    Research Publications

  • Jonathan E. Golub, MPH PhD

    • Professor of Medicine
  • Amita Gupta, MD MHS

    • Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: <p>TB in pregnancy, Antimicrobial Resistance, Diarrheal Diseases Epidemiology, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infections, COVID-19, TB, HIV and Co-Infection Care and Treatment Clinical Trials in India and Other Resource-Constrained Countries, Malnutrition and TB-HIV Coinfection in Adults and Children, Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention, </p>

    Research Publications

  • Christopher Hoffmann, MD MSC MPH

    • Associate Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Care delivery primarily in low and middle income settings, Clinical management of HIV and TB

  • Abraham Joseph Kandathil, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Emily Kendall, MD PhD

    • Associate Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: <p>Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Dynamics, Mechanistic Modeling, Tuberculosis, Diagnostics, Transmission</p>

    Research Publications

  • Sonya Krishnan, MD MHS

    • Associate Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Gregory M. Lucas, MD PhD

    • Professor of Medicine
  • Yuka C. Manabe, MD

    • Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation
    • Professor of Medicine
  • Kathleen Raquel Page, MD

    • Professor of Medicine
  • Thomas C Quinn, MD

    • Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: HIV Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Clinical Care, Virology

  • Matthew Robinson, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Research Publications

  • Maunank Shah, MD

    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Domestic TB, HIV transmission, mHealth interventions, Teaching and mentorship, Tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics

  • Sunil Suhas Solomon, MBBS MPH PhD

    • Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine
    • Professor of Medicine
  • Chloe L. Thio, MD

    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV

  • Dave Thomas, MD

    • Co-Director, Clinical Core, Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research
    • Professor of Medicine

    Research Interests: Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and HIV

    Research Publications

  • Jeffrey Tornheim, MD MPH

    • Associate Professor of Medicine

Clinical Trials

Learn more about Global Health clinical trials underway at Johns Hopkins.