Exciting, challenging, frightening times: global health, development and the stuff of innovation

Speaker: Dr Mark Dybul, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Time & Date: Monday 29 February 2016, 5.30pm

Venue: Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Event-url: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/6893/2016-harold-mitchell…

Dr Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist, teacher and administrator. After graduating from Georgetown Medical School in Washington DC, Dybul joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he conducted basic and clinical studies on HIV virology, immunology and treatment optimisation, including the first randomised, controlled trial with combination antiretroviral therapy in Africa.

Dybul became a founder of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and was appointed as its leader in 2006, He served until early 2009.

Before coming to the Global Fund, Dybul was co-director of the Global Health Law Program at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

The Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture Series, of which this is the fourth, has been created to provide a forum at which the most pressing development issues can be addressed by the best minds and most influential practitioners of our time.

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