Chris Beyrer is an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has been Director of the Duke Global Health Institute since 2022. He has led collaborative research on HIV prevention and treatment in Southeast Asia, Africa and eastern Europe and central Asia for more than 30 years. A former IAS President, he has served as advisor to, among others, PEPFAR, HIV Vaccine Trials Network, NIH Office of AIDS Research and WHO. Chris was the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), where he was Associate Director of the JHU Center for AIDS Research and Center for Global Health. He was the Founding Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and serves on the Academy’s Board for Global Health and the Committee for Human Rights.
