Dr. Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH is the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and he holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH School of Nursing. He is also Associate Director for Medicine of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. From 2005 to 2022, he was the Founding Director of the CCGHE. Dr. Bollinger and has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for >30 years, where he has been an educator, researcher and clinician. He has more than 40 years of experience in clinical and epidemiologic research and education in many countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia, in a broad range of global health priorities, including HIV, TB and emerging infections.