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Robert C. Bollinger, MD, MPH,  is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education.  He is a Professor of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of International Health of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He has more than 28 years of experience in international public health, clinical research and education in a broad range of global health priorities including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy and emerging infections.  His initial experience in public health in India was in 1979 and included field work with a leprosy control project in rural Bihar. Over the past 15 years, he has initiated and conducted a large collaborative Indo-US HIV research program in Pune, with the National AIDS Research Institute/ICMR and the BJ Medical College.   His ongoing public health research includes additional collaborative projects in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  Dr. Bollinger is also the Country Director for the Hopkins Fogarty International Programs in India and DRC, which has provided short-term and degree public health training to more than 200 visiting scientists at Hopkins, as well as in-country training for many more scientists, since 1992.   Additioanally, he is Director of the Immunology Core Laboratory for the international NIH-sponsored  HIV Prevention Trials Network, responsible for technology transfer, training and oversight of clinical and research laboratories in 17 institutions, in 13 countries.

Dr. Bollinger is an active clinician/educator, who provides and supervises HIV and infectious diseases clinical care, in the outpatient and in-patient settings at Johns Hopkins Hospital.   In addition to his teaching, research and clinical responsibilities, Dr. Bollinger has contributed to many public health training programs, expert committees and consultations in the US, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, India, Japan, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand and Uganda. He is a member of the US Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA), where he also serves on the PACHA International Sub-committee.  He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases from the American Board of Internal Medicine, having received internal medicine training at the University of Maryland Medical Systems and a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.   Dr. Bollinger has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Public Health since 1992.

To view Dr. Bollinger's Curriculum Vitae, click here.