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Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins. He is the current President of the International AIDS Society. Prof. Beyrer serves as Director of JHU’s HIV Training Program in Epidemiology and Prevention Science, and founded and directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the JHU Center for AIDS Research, CFAR. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Epidemiology and Natural History Planning Group of the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. NIH, and serves on scientific advisory committees for UNAIDS and WHO. He has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and training programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, in infectious disease prevention research, HIV vaccine preparedness, in health and migration, and in health and human rights. Dr. Beyrer has done research health and human rights concerns in Thailand, Burma, China, India, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and is the author of over 240 scientific papers, 6 books and numerous other publications. |
Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins. He is the current President of the International AIDS Society. Prof. Beyrer serves as Director of JHU’s HIV Training Program in Epidemiology and Prevention Science, and founded and directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the JHU Center for AIDS Research, CFAR. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Epidemiology and Natural History Planning Group of the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. NIH, and serves on scientific advisory committees for UNAIDS and WHO. He has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and training programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, in infectious disease prevention research, HIV vaccine preparedness, in health and migration, and in health and human rights. Dr. Beyrer has done research health and human rights concerns in Thailand, Burma, China, India, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and is the author of over 240 scientific papers, 6 books and numerous other publications. |
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Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins. He is the current President of the International AIDS Society. Prof. Beyrer serves as Director of JHU’s HIV Training Program in Epidemiology and Prevention Science, and founded and directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the JHU Center for AIDS Research, CFAR. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Epidemiology and Natural History Planning Group of the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. NIH, and serves on scientific advisory committees for UNAIDS and WHO. He has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and training programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, in infectious disease prevention research, HIV vaccine preparedness, in health and migration, and in health and human rights. Dr. Beyrer has done research health and human rights concerns in Thailand, Burma, China, India, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and is the author of over 240 scientific papers, 6 books and numerous other publications.
Dr. Beyrer is a 1977 graduate of East Islip High School, a 1981 graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva New York, with a BA in History. He received his Medical Degree, Cum Laude, from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 1988, did his medical internship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1988-89, and completed his Residency in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1992. He also received his MPH from Johns Hopkins in 1991 and completed his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in medical sciences from Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he worked on HVI research from 1992-1997. Dr. Beyrer was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
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