Faculty honors
Carlos del Rio (left) & Mohammed Ali (right)
Carlos del Rio, Hubert Professor and chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health, received one of the highest honors in health and medicine with his election in 2013 to the Institute of Medicine. Del Rio is director of the Emory AIDS International Training and Research Program and co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, both based at Rollins. He also is an infectious disease specialist at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital.
His research program, funded by the CDC and NIH, focuses on decreasing barriers to care among HIV-infected persons, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations, such as substance abusers. He also works to improve access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients and build human research capacity in countries and communities with limited resources.
Mohammed Ali, assistant professor of global health, is the recipient of the 2013 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health/Pfizer Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award, which recognizes young faculty for teaching excellence. Ali specializes in the study of diabetes, including youth-onset diabetes in Chennai, India, and diabetes care in South Asia. He also provides surveillance advice to diabetes programs and works with the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program.
Previous winners of the Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award from Rollins include Juan Leon, assistant professor of global health, in 2012, and Rob Stephenson, associate professor of global health and the first recipient of the award in 2007.
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