Dr. Gerald T. Keusch is the Assistant Provost for Global Health, Medical Campus and Associate Dean for Global Health at Boston University. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Keusch served as the Associate Director for International Research and Director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.
A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Medical School, he is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Keusch has been involved in clinical medicine, teaching and research for his entire career, most recently as Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Senior Attending Physician and Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the New England Medical Center in Boston. His research has ranged from the molecular pathogenesis of tropical infectious diseases to field research in nutrition, immunology, host susceptibility, and the treatment of tropical infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS. He has been a Faculty Associate at Harvard Institute for International Development and has served as Director of the Health Office.
Dr. Keusch is the author of more than 300 original publications, reviews, and book chapters, and is the editor of eight scientific books. He is the recipient of the Squibb, Finland and Bristol awards for research excellence from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has delivered numerous lectures on topics of science and global health at leading institutions around the world. He is presently involved in international health research and policy within the NIH, and at the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine.
Under his leadership, the programs of the Fogarty International Center were greatly expanded to address not only the pressing global issues in infectious diseases and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, but also critical cross-cutting issues, such as the ethical conduct of research, intellectual property rights and global public goods, stigma, the impact of improved health on economic development, and the effect of economic development on the environment and health.