 | | Plenary Session Presentation:
Emerging HIV epidemics
Christopher Beyrer, MD, MPH, United States
Dr. Beyer is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, USA. He serves as Director of the Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, and is Founding Director of the newly created Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins. From 1992-1997, he was visiting faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Chiang Mai University, and currently serves as International Advisor to the Research Institute for Health Sciences of CMU in Thailand.
Dr. Beyrer is Senior Scientific Liaison for the HIV Vaccine Trial Network of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for HIV vaccine trials in Eurasia. He has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and programmes in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, prevention research, vaccine preparedness, and in health and human rights. Dr. Beyrer currently has research or training activities in Thailand, China, India, Laos, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, and Tajikistan. He is the author of more than 110 scientific papers and the 1998 book, War in the Blood : Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia. He has served as a consultant and/or adviser to numerous national and international institutions, including the NIH Office of AIDS Research, the World Bank and the Open Society Institute.
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