Chris Beyrer

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Chris Beyrer is the Director of the Duke Global Health Institute.[1] He was previously a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.[2] He was president of the International AIDS Society from 2014 to 2016.[3]

Early life[edit]

Beyrer was born in Bern, Switzerland, the son of Charles Beyrer, an American medical student.[4] The family later moved to East Islip, New York, where Beyrer went to school.[4] In 1981 he graduated in history from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.[4] He spent time in Asia learning about Buddhism.[4]

He graduated in medicine from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 1988, and completed a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins in 1991.[4] From 1992 to 1997 he was in Thailand, where he worked on AIDS prevention.[4] He returned to Johns Hopkins in 1997.[4]

Career[edit]

At Johns Hopkins, Beyrer is a professor of epidemiology, of international health and of health, behavior and society.[2] He is director of the Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program,[5] and of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, which he founded.[4] He is an investigator for the Center for AIDS Research and an associate director of the Center for Global Health.[4]

Beyrer was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Chris Beyrer". Duke. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Chris Beyrer, MD: Professor. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Accessed April 2016.
  3. ^ "Governing Council". International AIDS Society. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Everitt, Jonathan. "Chris Beyrer's '81 personal encounter with the AIDS epidemic sparks lifelong passion". Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  5. ^ Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program: Administration. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Accessed April 2016.
  6. ^ "Institute of Medicine elects 70 new members, 10 foreign associates". National Academy of Sciences. 20 October 2014. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019.
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