Recordings from each Friday Morning Conference are available here and are uploaded at the start of each month.
Academic Year Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Spring 2023
May 26, 2023 – Weiming Tang, PhD,MS; The community-led model Improves PrEP Uptake and HBV/HCV Testing among MSM in China.
May 19, 2023 –Ben Chi, MD, MSc; HIV prevention during pregnancy & postpartum- towards a status-neutral approach
April 28, 2023 -Carolyn Williams; Deep dive into the characteristics of HIV breakthrough viruses from the AMP study (HVTN 703/704; HPTN 085/081)
April 28, 2023; Miriam Braunstein; Bacteriophage as therapy for intracellular nontuberculous mycobacteria
April 14, 2023; Grant Broussard,Guoxin Ni, Zhigang Zhang, Qian Li, Patricio Cano, Dirk Dittmer, Blossom Damania; Barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) promotes gammaherpesvirus reactivation from latency
March 31, 2023; Gauri Rao, Pharm. D, MS; Reconceptualizing Antibiotic Therapy Taking Host Pathogen Interaction Into Consideration
March 10, 2023; Nancie M. Archin, PhD; CHARACTERIZING THE HIV RESERVOIR IN WOMEN: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN HIV CURE
February 24, 2023; Kenneth N Olivier, MD, MPH; M. abscessus & the Susceptible Host Environment, Pathogenesis, Transmission & Therapeutic Considerations
February 17, 2023; Sarah Joseph; Temporal dynamics of HIV-1 reservoir formation
February 10, 2023; Gonzalo Bearman MD, MPH, FACP, FSHEA, FIDSA; Leadership in Healthcare Epidemiology Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medicine A Soccer Enthusiast’s Perspective
February 03, 2023; Timothy Sheahan, Ph.D.; Host genetics guides clearance and chronicity of hepacivirus infection
January 27, 2023; Martha Kovarova PhD; Long-acting in-situ forming implants for prevention of infectious diseases
January 20, 2023; Kathleen A McManus; Ending the HIV Epidemic; Evidence about Health Policies in Practice
January 13, 2023; Kevin Alby PhD, D(ABMM); Updates in Clinical Microbiology and AMR Detection
December 2, 2022 – World AIDS Day
November 18, 2022, Charles Nunn – Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Health in Madagascar (and Beyond)
November 11, 2022 – UNC Global Health Scholars Symposium
November 4, 2022, Cecile D. Lahiri, MD, MSc – Cardiometabolic Comorbidities in Persons with HIV: Understanding Risk Factors and Underlying Mechanisms
October 28, 2022, Toni Darville, MD – Quest for a T cell Vaccine
October 14, 2022, Bryon J. Powell, PhD, LCSW – Enhancing Methods for Designing, Tailoring, and Evaluating Implementation Strategies
October 7, 2022, Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSC – Toward Equity in HIV Care for Incarcerated People in sub-Saharan Africa
September 30, 2022, Sarah Rutstein. MD, PhD – Efficient Allocation of Scarce Resources: Risk-Informed Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions in HIV Prevention and Care
September 23, 2022, Arlene Seña, MD, MPH, Mitch Matoga, MBBS, Farhang Aghakhanian, PhD – “Greatpox” and the Global Consortium for Syphilis Vaccine Development
September 16, 2022, Luther Bartelt, MD, DTM&H –Beyond Bacteria… and Back: Advances in Pathways of Parasite-Induced Gut Dysfunction and New Ways Forward
September 9, 2022, David Weber, MD, MPH – Pandemics, Outbreaks & Emerging Infectious Diseases
Academic Year Fall 2021- Spring 2022
April 1st, 2022, STI/HIV Training Program Trainees –Heather Henderson, PhD “Antimicrobial-Resistant Enterobacterales in People with HIV in the UNC Health System,” Paul Zivich, III, PhD “Comparing Tenofovir Alafenamide & Emtricitabine Combination Preexposure Prophylaxis to Placebo for HIV Prevention via a Bridged Comparison Design,” Bree Little, PhD candidate “Determination of Protective Antigens in 4CMenB Against N. gonorrhoeae”
March 25th, 2022, Stanley Lemon, MD –Host-Directed Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis A
March 18th, 2022, Daniel Neafsey, PhD –Antimalarial Drug Resistance in South America: Twists and Turns on the Map from Genotype to Phenotype
March 4th, 2022, Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH –CROI 2022: Focus on Antivirals
February 25th, 2022, Wenhui Hu, MD, PhD –Target-specific Delivery of CRISPR/Cas Genome Editors to Fight Virus Infection
February 18th, 2022, Gaurav Dave, MD, DrPH, MPH –Intersection of Social Determinates of Health with COVID-19 Pandemic
February 4th, 2022, Bryan Byrd (WCU) –Lacrosse encephalitis
January 28th, 2022, Lameck Chinula, MBBS, FCOG, MMED and Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR –Cervical cancer research in Africa
January 21st, 2022, Michel Nussenzweig, MD (Rockefeller Center)-Human Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination
January 14th, 2022, Sylvia Becker-Dreps (UNC) –Childhood diarrhea after rotavirus vaccine rollout: meet the Caliciviruses
January 7th, 2022, Mike Cohen, MD (UNC) –Monoclonal antibodies for SARS-CoV2
December 17th, 2021, Emily Hadley (RTI), Michael Duprey (RTI), and Christine Bevac (RTI) –Application of RTI’s Synthetic Population in Modeling
November 19, 2021, Clarisse Sri-Pathmanathan/Eneyi Kpokiri, (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) –Public Engagement and Crowdfunding in Research: Data from a Global Qualitative Evidence Synthesis and WHO Pilot
November 12, 2021, Art Baker, MD (Duke) –Healthcare Facility-Associated Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Outbreaks, Transmission, and Prevention
November 5, 2021, Melissa Nolan, PhD, MPH (USC) –Translational Field Investigations of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses and Chagas Disease in the USA and Latin America
October 29, 2021, David van Duin, MD, PhD (UNC) –The Slow-Moving Catastrophe of Antibacterial Resistance
October 22, 2021, Weiming Tang, PhD (UNC) –How Kindness can be Contagious in Healthcare
October 15, 2021, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH (UNC) –Innovations in Digital Health Strategies for Engaging Youth in HIV Treatment and Prevention
October 8, 2021, Davis Wohl, MD (UNC) –Monoclonal Antibodies and other New Therapies for COVID-19
September 24, 2021, Justin Lessler, PhD (UNC) –Epidemic dynamics for informed policy: COVID-19 and Beyond
September 17, 2021, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD (UNC) –HIV Cure Talk
September 10, 2021, David Weber, MD, MPH (UNC) –COVID-19 Update: Focus on Epidemiology; Impact of Variants; Effectiveness of COVID Mitigation Strategies in Healthcare, Communities, and K-12 Schools; Vaccines; and Projections for the Future
Academic Year Fall 2020- Spring 2021
March 5, 2021, Thomas Holland, MD (Duke) – S. aureus Bacteremia: 2021 Management Updates
February 26, 2021, David Wohl, MD (UNC) – COVID-19: A Year
February 19, 2021, Larry Corey, MD (COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) – Current Status of COVID-19 Vaccine Development
February 12, 2021, Brenna L. Hughes, MD, MSc (Duke) – COVID-19 in pregnancy
February 5, 2021, Srilatha Edupuganti, MD (Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center) – Efficacy Results From the Antibody Mediated Prevention Trials for HIV Prevention: From the Bench to the Clinic and Back
January 29, 2021, Dirk Dittmer, PhD (UNC) – Sequencing SARS-CoV-2: What can we do, what can we learn?
January 22, 2021, Audrey Pettifor, PhD (UNC) – ReCCAP: Return to Campus COVID-19 Assessment for UNC Research Personnel
January 15, 2021, Chris Sellers, Michael McNeil, Chris Evans – Wake County Health Department Rapid Start/Retention/PreP outcomes
January 8, 2021, Tim Sheahan, PhD (UNC) – SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapies
December 18, 2020, Nick Brazeau (Imperial College of London) – COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio
December 11, 2020, Becky White, MD, MPH (UNC) – FIT for PrEP: Adapting a prison transitions program for post-release PrEP care
November 20, 2020, Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD (UNC) – Enterovirus D68 induced acute flaccid myelitis: What an old foe can teach us about an emerging infectious cause of paralysis
November 13, 2020, Dan Wu, MBBS, MSc, PhD, (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) – Pay-it-forward to increase influenza vaccinations
November 6, 2020, Heidi J. Larson, PhD (Vaccine Confidence Project; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) – Vaccine Confidence
October 30, 2020, Jessica Lin, MD (UNC) – COVID-19 Household Transmission Study
October 16, 2020, Edward Browne, PhD (UNC) – How HIV hides during therapy: molecular analysis of HIV latency
October 9, 2020, Luther Bartelt, MD; Heather Root, MD; Alena Markmann, MS, MD, PhD (UNC) – The UNC Coronavirus-Inactivating Plasma (CoVIP) Therapy Program: Addressing the emergency and the equipoise
September 25, 2020, Myron Cohen, MD (UNC) – Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19
September 18, 2020, Aravinda de Silva, PhD; Premkumar Lakshmanane, PhD (UNC) – SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies
September 11, 2020, David Weber, MD, MPH (UNC) – COVID-19 Update
Academic Year Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
Note: The video platform for Friday Morning Conference recordings changed once the series became virtual.
April 24, 2020, CFAR Developmental, Clinical Pharmacology/Analytical Chemistry, and Biostatistics Cores – CFAR Core Updates
April 17, 2020, T32 Trainees – ID Epi Projects
March 20, 2020, Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS (Duke University) – “HBV Viral Control or Functional Cure: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?”
Academic Year Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
May 31, 2019, Marlene Durand, MD (Harvard) – “Infections of the eyes, ears, and sinuses”
May 24, 2019, Carl Williams, DVM (N.C. Department of Health & Human Services) – “Vector-borne Disease Surveillance and Response in North Carolina”
May 10, 2019, Brian W. Pence, PhD (UNC) – “What Does Mental Health Have to do with Ending AIDS?: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities from the US and Malawi”
May 3, 2019, Andrew Oberst, PhD (University of Washington) – “Metabolic Immunity in the Brain”
April 26, 2019, Daniel Westreich, MSPH, PhD; Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS; Heidi Swygard, MD, MPH; and David Wohl, MD (UNC) – updates from the 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
April 12, 2019, Taylor Poston, PhD, MPH; Olivia Council; and Thibaut Davy-Mendez, MSPH (UNC) – Chlamydia vaccine development, HIV in the male genital tract, and HIV antiretroviral therapy development and treatment resistance
April 5, 2019, IGHIDs Anniversary Celebrationwith UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases domestic and international site program leaders’ presentations as well as special guests Richard Chaisson, MD, of Johns Hopkins Tuberculosis Research Center and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, of Harvard and Partners in Health
March 29, 2019, Alexander K. Rowe, MD, MPH (CDC) – “Improving health worker practices for managing communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries”
March 22, 2019, Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, FRCSEd, FAC (UNC) – “Surgery and Global Public Health: The Quest for a Sustainable Model”
March 8, 2019, Lisa Rahangdale, MD (UNC) – “HPV Updates: Beyond the Pap Test”
March 1, 2019, Sharon Weir, PhD (UNC) – “Estimating the Size of Key Populations: Pitfalls and Priorities”
Feb. 22, 2019, Vivian Chu, MD, MHS (Duke) – “Infective Endocarditis from an Oral Source: Swallowing the Prophylaxis Pill”
Feb. 15, 2019, Jonathan “Jono” Quick, MD, MPH (Senior Fellow Emeritus and Former President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School) – “Hurtling into the Century of Epidemics: We Can Make the World Safer – But Will We?”
Feb. 8, 2019, Emily Landon, MD (University of Chicago) – “HIV Exceptionalism: Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Ethics”
Feb. 1, 2019, Timothy Sheahan, PhD (UNC) – “Development of Antiviral Therapies for Coronavirus”
Jan. 25, 2019, Seth M. Noar, PhD (UNC) – “HIV/AIDS Communication Campaigns: Past, Present, and Future”
Jan. 11, 2019, Ben Chi, MD, MSc (UNC) – “HIV Prevention during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding”
Jan. 4, 2019, Chip Walter, MD, MPH, and Tony Moody (Duke) – “Duke Vaccine and Trials Unit: Past, Present and Future”
Dec. 14, 2018, Audrey Pettifor, PhD (UNC) – “Growing up in South Africa: Young Women’s Transitions to Adulthood and Lessons Learned about HIV and Adolescence”
Dec. 7, 2018, Peter Gilligan, PhD (UNC) – “The Emergence of Mycobacterium Abscessus in Chronic Infection in Patients with Bronchiectasis”
Nov. 16, 2018, Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH (Duke Global Health Institute) – “Global Health in War and Peace: A Case for Global Health Diplomacy”
Nov. 9, 2018, Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR (UNC) – “Challenges to Malaria Elimination in the 21st Century”
Nov. 2, 2018, Stanley M. Lemon, MD (UNC) – “Enterically-transmitted Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E”
Oct. 26, 2018, Heidi Swygard, MD, MPH (UNC) – “Rapid ART: Are We Ready to Start?”
Oct. 19, 2018, Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH, (UNC) – “The Microbiome and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Infectious Diseases in the Genomic Era”
Oct. 12, 2018, Luther Bartelt, MD, (UNC) – “Unraveling Endemic Giardiasis and the Intestinal ‘Pathobiome’ of Childhood Malnutrition”
Sept. 28, 2018, Natalie Bowman, MD, MPH (UNC) – “Chagas Disease in People Living with HIV in South America” and Ross Boyce, MD, MSc (UNC) – “Geography as Destiny: Health Outcomes in Rural Western Uganda”
Sept. 21, 2018, David Margolis, MD (UNC) – “Toward Treatment to Cure HIV Infection: Work in Progress at the UNC HIV Cure Center”
Sept. 7, 2018, Frank Palella, MD, (Northwestern University) – “Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection”
