Previous Friday Conferences | Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (2025)

March 24, 2023 (conference was canceled)
Andrew Owen, BSS, MSc, PhD, FSB, – Pharmacological Evaluation of Long-Acting Formulations for HIV and TB

March 17, 2023 (not available)
Nigel Garrett, MBBS, MRCP, MSc, PhD – From HIV to COVID and Back: COVID-19 Vaccines in People Living With HIV

January 13, 2023
Kevin Alby, PhD – Updates in Clinical Microbiology and AMR Detection

January 3, 2023
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD – From Bog to Bedside: The Story Behind the First Dedicated Phage Therapy Center in North America

December 2, 2022
World AIDS Day

November 18, 2022
Charles Nunn– Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Health in Madagascar (and Beyond)

November 11, 2022
UNC Global Health Scholars Symposium

November 4, 2022
Cecile D. Lahiri, MD, MSc –Cardiometabolic Comorbidities in Persons with HIV: Understanding Risk Factors and Underlying Mechanisms

October 28, 2022
Toni Darville, MD – Quest for a T cell Vaccine

October 14, 2022
Bryon J. Powell, PhD, LCSW – Enhancing Methods for Designing, Tailoring, and Evaluating Implementation Strategies

October 7, 2022
Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSC – Toward Equity in HIV Care for Incarcerated People in sub-Saharan Africa

September 30, 2022
Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD – Efficient Allocation of Scarce Resources: Risk-Informed Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions in HIV Prevention and Care

September 23, 2022
Arlene Seña, MD, MPH, Mitch Matoga, MBBS, Farhang Aghakhanian, PhD – “Greatpox” and the Global Consortium for Syphilis Vaccine Development

September 16, 2022
Luther Bartelt, MD, DTM&H –Beyond Bacteria… and Back: Advances in Pathways of Parasite-Induced Gut Dysfunction and New Ways Forward

September 9, 2022
David Weber, MD, MPH – Pandemics, Outbreaks & Emerging Infectious Diseases

ACADEMIC YEAR FALL 2021- SPRING 2022

April 1, 2022
STI/HIV Training Program Trainees –Heather Henderson, PhD“Antimicrobial-Resistant Enterobacterales in People with HIVin the UNC Health System,”Paul Zivich, III, PhD“Comparing Tenofovir Alafenamide & Emtricitabine Combination Preexposure Prophylaxis to Placebo for HIV Prevention via a Bridged Comparison Design,”Bree Little, PhD candidate“Determination of Protective Antigens in 4CMenB Against N. gonorrhoeae”

March 25, 2022
Stanley Lemon, MD –Host-Directed Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis A

March 18, 2022
Daniel Neafsey, PhD –Antimalarial Drug Resistance in South America: Twists and Turns on the Map from Genotype to Phenotype

March 4, 2022
Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH –CROI 2022: Focus on Antivirals

February 25, 2022
Wenhui Hu, MD, PhD – Target-specific Delivery of CRISPR/CasGenome Editorsto Fight Virus Infection

February 18, 2022
Gaurav Dave, MD, DrPH, MPH– Intersection of Social Determinates of HealthwithCOVID-19 Pandemic

February 4, 2022
Bryan Byrd (WCU) – Lacrosse encephalitis

January 28, 2022
Lameck Chinula, MBBS, FCOG, MMED and Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR– Cervical cancer research in Africa

January 21, 2022
Michel Nussenzweig, MD(Rockefeller Center) –Human Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination

January 14, 2022
Sylvia Becker-Dreps(UNC) – Childhood diarrhea after rotavirus vaccine rollout: meet the Caliciviruses

January 7, 2022
Mike Cohen, MD (UNC) –Monoclonal antibodies for SARS-CoV2

December 17, 2021
Emily Hadley (RTI), Michael Duprey (RTI), and Christine Bevac (RTI) –Application of RTI’s Synthetic Population in Modeling

November 19, 2021
Clarisse Sri-Pathmanathan/Eneyi Kpokiri, (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) – Public Engagement and Crowdfunding in Research: Data from a Global Qualitative Evidence Synthesis and WHO Pilot

November 12, 2021
Art Baker, MD (Duke) –Healthcare Facility-Associated Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Outbreaks, Transmission, and Prevention

November 5, 2021
Melissa Nolan, PhD, MPH (USC) –Translational Field Investigations of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses and Chagas Disease in the USA and Latin America

October 29, 2021
David van Duin, MD, PhD (UNC) –The Slow-Moving Catastrophe of Antibacterial Resistance

October 22, 2021
Weiming Tang, PhD (UNC) –How Kindness can be Contagious in Healthcare

October 15, 2021
Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH (UNC) –Innovations in Digital Health Strategies for Engaging Youth in HIV Treatment and Prevention

October 8, 2021
Davis Wohl, MD (UNC) –Monoclonal Antibodies and other New Therapies for COVID-19

September 24, 2021
Justin Lessler, PhD (UNC) –Epidemic dynamics for informed policy: COVID-19 and Beyond

September 17, 2021
Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD (UNC) –HIV Cure Talk

September 10, 2021
David Weber, MD, MPH (UNC) –COVID-19 Update: Focus on Epidemiology; Impact of Variants; Effectiveness of COVID Mitigation Strategies in Healthcare, Communities, and K-12 Schools; Vaccines; and Projections for the Future

ACADEMIC YEAR FALL 2020 – SPRING 2021

March 5, 2021
Thomas Holland, MD (Duke) –S. aureus Bacteremia: 2021 Management Updates

February 26, 2021
David Wohl, MD (UNC) – COVID-19: A Year

February 19, 2021
Larry Corey, MD (COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) – Current Status of COVID-19 Vaccine Development

February 12, 2021
Brenna L. Hughes, MD, MSc (Duke) – COVID-19 in pregnancy

February 5, 2021
Srilatha Edupuganti, MD (Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center) – Efficacy Results From the Antibody Mediated Prevention Trials for HIV Prevention: From the Bench to the Clinic and Back

January 29, 2021
Dirk Dittmer, PhD (UNC) – Sequencing SARS-CoV-2: What can we do, what can we learn?

January 22, 2021
Audrey Pettifor, PhD (UNC) – ReCCAP: Return to Campus COVID-19 Assessment for UNC Research Personnel

January 15, 2021
Chris Sellers, Michael McNeil, Chris Evans – Wake County Health Department Rapid Start/Retention/PreP outcomes

January 8, 2021
Tim Sheahan, PhD (UNC) – SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapies

December 18, 2020
Nick Brazeau (Imperial College of London) – COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio

December 11, 2020
Becky White, MD, MPH (UNC) – FIT for PrEP: Adapting a prison transitions program for post-release PrEP care

November 20, 2020
Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD (UNC) – Enterovirus D68 induced acute flaccid myelitis: What an old foe can teach us about an emerging infectious cause of paralysis

November 13, 2020
Dan Wu, MBBS, MSc, PhD, (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) – Pay-it-forward to increase influenza vaccinations

November 6, 2020
Heidi J. Larson, PhD (Vaccine Confidence Project; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) – Vaccine Confidence

October 30, 2020
Jessica Lin, MD (UNC) – COVID-19 Household Transmission Study

October 16, 2020
Edward Browne, PhD (UNC) – How HIV hides during therapy: molecular analysis of HIV latency

October 9, 2020
Luther Bartelt, MD; Heather Root, MD; Alena Markmann, MS, MD, PhD (UNC) – The UNC Coronavirus-Inactivating Plasma (CoVIP) Therapy Program: Addressing the emergency and the equipoise

September 25, 2020
Myron Cohen, MD (UNC) – Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19

September 18, 2020, Aravinda de Silva, PhD; Premkumar Lakshmanane, PhD (UNC) – SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies

September 11, 2020, David Weber, MD, MPH (UNC) – COVID-19 Update

ACADEMIC YEAR FALL 2019 – SPRING 2020

Note: The video platform for Friday Morning Conference recordings changed once the series became virtual.

April 24, 2020
CFAR Developmental, Clinical Pharmacology/Analytical Chemistry, and Biostatistics Cores – CFAR Core Updates

April 17, 2020
T32 Trainees – ID Epi Projects

March 20, 2020
Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS (Duke University) – “HBV Viral Control or Functional Cure: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?”

ACADEMIC YEAR FALL 2018 – SPRING 2019

May 31, 2019
Marlene Durand, MD (Harvard) – “Infections of the eyes, ears, and sinuses

May 24, 2019
Carl Williams, DVM (N.C. Department of Health & Human Services) – “Vector-borne Disease Surveillance and Response in North Carolina

May 10, 2019
Brian W. Pence, PhD (UNC) – “What Does Mental Health Have to do with Ending AIDS?: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities from the US and Malawi

May 3, 2019
Andrew Oberst, PhD (University of Washington) – “Metabolic Immunity in the Brain

April 26, 2019, Daniel Westreich, MSPH, PhD; Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS; Heidi Swygard, MD, MPH; and David Wohl, MD (UNC) – updates from the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)

April 12, 2019
Taylor Poston, PhD, MPH; Olivia Council; and Thibaut Davy-Mendez, MSPH (UNC) – Chlamydia vaccine development, HIV in the male genital tract, and HIV antiretroviral therapy development and treatment resistance

April 5, 2019
IGHID’s Anniversary Celebration with UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases domestic and international site program leaders’ presentations as well as special guests Richard Chaisson, MD, of Johns Hopkins Tuberculosis Research Center and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, of Harvard and Partners in Health

March 29, 2019
Alexander K. Rowe, MD, MPH (CDC) – “Improving health worker practices for managing communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries

March 22, 2019
Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, FRCSEd, FAC (UNC) – “Surgery and Global Public Health: The Quest for a Sustainable Model

March 8, 2019
Lisa Rahangdale, MD (UNC) – “HPV Updates: Beyond the Pap Test

March 1, 2019
Sharon Weir, PhD (UNC) – “Estimating the Size of Key Populations: Pitfalls and Priorities

Feb. 22, 2019
Vivian Chu, MD, MHS (Duke) – “Infective Endocarditis from an Oral Source: Swallowing the Prophylaxis Pill

Feb. 15, 2019
Jonathan “Jono” Quick, MD, MPH (Senior Fellow Emeritus and Former President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School) – “Hurtling into the Century of Epidemics: We Can Make the World Safer – But Will We?

Feb. 8, 2019
Emily Landon, MD (University of Chicago) – “HIV Exceptionalism: Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Ethics

Feb. 1, 2019
Timothy Sheahan, PhD (UNC) – “Development of Antiviral Therapies for Coronavirus

Jan. 25, 2019
Seth M. Noar, PhD (UNC) – “HIV/AIDS Communication Campaigns: Past, Present, and Future

Jan. 11, 2019
Ben Chi, MD, MSc (UNC) – “HIV Prevention during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

Jan. 4, 2019
Chip Walter, MD, MPH, and Tony Moody (Duke) – “Duke Vaccine and Trials Unit: Past, Present and Future

Dec. 14, 2018
Audrey Pettifor, PhD (UNC) – “Growing up in South Africa: Young Women’s Transitions to Adulthood and Lessons Learned about HIV and Adolescence

Dec. 7, 2018
Peter Gilligan, PhD (UNC) – “The Emergence of Mycobacterium Abscessus in Chronic Infection in Patients with Bronchiectasis

Nov. 16, 2018
Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH (Duke Global Health Institute) – “Global Health in War and Peace: A Case for Global Health Diplomacy

Nov. 9, 2018
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR (UNC) – “Challenges to Malaria Elimination in the 21st Century

Nov. 2, 2018
Stanley M. Lemon, MD (UNC) – “Enterically-transmitted Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E

Oct. 26, 2018
Heidi Swygard, MD, MPH (UNC) – “Rapid ART: Are We Ready to Start?

Oct. 19, 2018
Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH, (UNC) – “The Microbiome and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Infectious Diseases in the Genomic Era

Oct. 12, 2018
Luther Bartelt, MD, (UNC) – “Unraveling Endemic Giardiasis and the Intestinal ‘Pathobiome’ of Childhood Malnutrition

Sept. 28, 2018
Natalie Bowman, MD, MPH (UNC) –“Chagas Disease in People Living with HIV in South America” and Ross Boyce, MD, MSc (UNC) –Geography as Destiny: Health Outcomes in Rural Western Uganda

Sept. 21, 2018
David Margolis, MD (UNC) – “Toward Treatment to Cure HIV Infection: Work in Progress at the UNC HIV Cure Center”

Sept. 7, 2018
Frank Palella, MD, (Northwestern University) –“Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection”

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