Chris Beyrer Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH is the Gary Hock Distinguished Professor of Global Infectious Diseases at Duke University, Director of the Duke Global Health Institute and Associate Director for Global HIV at the Duke Center for AIDS Research. Prior to coming to Duke in 2022, Dr. Beyrer was the Desmond M. Tutu Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine from 1997-2022.
Beyrer has led collaborative research on HIV epidemiology, prevention and treatment in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia for over 30 years. His recent HIV research has been with key populations including sexual and gender minorities, people who inject drugs, sex workers, and prisoners and detainees. He is past president of the International AIDS Society and currently serves as an advisor to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, The Fogarty International Center of the NIH, the World Health Organization, and Physicians for Human Rights.
He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2014. The author of over 450 scientific papers, he is regularly listed among the world’s most cited scientists. In addition to his positions at Duke, he holds current academic appointments at Johns Hopkins, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda.