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Infectious Diseases Headlines

Explore the latest public health research and insights about infectious diseases. 
 

Anthony Leung (left) and research technologist Junlin Zhuo, ScM, inspect a plate of bacteria that produce proteins for ADPr-Glo. Photo by Chris Hartlove

New drug targets and tools for identifying promising drugs suggest treatments for Covid-19—and future diseases.

Public Health Magazine
Entomologist Limonty Simubali stands in front of the “mosquito house” in Macha, Zambia, on March 30, 2022.

The parasite-mosquito-human nexus spawns an incredibly complex disease challenge. Successes against malaria often don’t last, nor are they easily replicated. Yet.

Public Health Magazine
A health worker provides medical advice on HIV/AIDS testing in Lagos, Nigeria, May 1, 2021. Image: Emmanuel Osodi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty

Aima Ahonkhai has heard the story many times: young people with HIV, feeling at a dead end. As an infectious disease clinician who works with many young people living with HIV in both the US and Nigeria, Ahonkhai, MD, MPH, has seen the toll the disease takes on young…

Global Health NOW

Infectious Diseases Faculty Experts

Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of infectious diseases? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

George Dimopoulos
Professor
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

George Dimopoulos, PhD, MBA, studies vector-borne diseases and how mosquitoes can be rendered incapable of transmitting human pathogens.

Andrew Pekosz
Professor
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Andy Pekosz, PhD, investigates the replication and disease potential of respiratory viruses including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging viruses.