BMC Global and Public Health is pleased to welcome CFMcQuaid to its Editorial Board. Finn is an infectious disease epidemiologist working on TB modelling at LSHTM. He is also co-guest editor for a collection on identifying people with TB.
Research interests: Viral diseases, Molecular epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, Arboviruses, STIs, Emerging Infectious Diseases
Dr. Robert Paulino-Ramirez is Professor of the Chair of Tropical Medicine and Global Health and Medical Virology at the School of Medicine of the Universidad Iberoamericana-UNIBE, and Clinical Associate Professor at Michigan State University . Principal Investigator and founder director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine & Global Health of UNIBE.
Senior researcher of the National Health Research Career, and Researcher of the Year in the Health category of the National Research Award . He received the Young Investigator Award from the Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases . He was Scientific Director of the COVID-19 Emergency and Health Management Committee.
He is a member of the Dominican Academy of Medicine, the American Virology Society, the International AIDS Society, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the American Association of HIV Specialists.
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