Northwestern Events Calendar

Jan
10
2024

Havey Institute for Global Health Seminar Series with Claudia Hawkins, MD, MPH

When: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT

Where: Online
Webcast Link

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Sara Caudillo   (312) 503-9000

Group: Havey Institute for Global Health

Category: Academic

Description:

Description:
Please join the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health for our IGH Seminar Series! The IGH Seminar Series is held monthly, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond.

Our speaker for January is: 
Claudia Hawkins, MD, MPH  
Director, Center for Global Communicable and Emerging Infectious Diseases  
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) 
Center for Global Communicable Diseases 

Claudia Hawkins is an Associate Professor of Medicine-Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Her specialty is Infectious Diseases with a focus on the care of individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and viral hepatitis B and C. As Director of the Viral Hepatitis/HIV Co-infection Program within the Division of Infectious Diseases, she oversees the clinical management of patients with HIV and viral hepatitis B and C in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic and teaches rotating fellows, residents and students. 

Dr. Hawkins is Principal and Co-Investigator on a number of epidemiological studies of HIV, Viral Hepatitis B and C, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma as well as trials investigating novel Hepatitis B therapeutic agents. Most of her research is conducted in Tanzania and Nigeria where she also provides technical and clinical guidance to large HIV care and treatment programs, and mentors junior faculty on HIV research through global health research training programs. She is currently Principal Investigator of a NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) funded HIV research training grant on Patient Centered Outcomes Research.

 

For more information on the Havey Institute for Global Health, check out the website:
https://www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu 

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