2025 Global Health Week
View 2025 Global Health Week Program Recordings
Thank you to all of the volunteers, staff and individuals who attended programs during the 2025 MUSC Global Health Week! On-demand recordings of two programs are available to watch for those who could not attend. Please click the links to access the recordings below:
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Schedule
Monday, April 7
Keynote presentation from Dr. Chris Beyrer
"The State of Global Health in a New Era of Uncertainty”
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Chris Beyrer, M.D., MPH, an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 treatment and research, became director of the Duke Global Health Institute in August 2022. He is the Gary Hock Distinguished Professor of Global Infectious Diseases at Duke, and a professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Beyrer has led collaborative research on HIV epidemiology, prevention and treatment in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia for more than 30 years. He is past president of the International AIDS Society, the world’s largest body of HIV professionals, and currently serves as an advisor to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, the World Health Organization, and Physicians for Human Rights. The author of over 440 scientific papers, he was named in 2022 to the annual list of the world’s most cited scientists.
Before coming to Duke, Beyrer was the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he served as associate director of the JHU Center for AIDS Research and the Center for Global Health. He was the founding director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed his residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and serves on the Academy’s Board for Global Health and on the Committee for Human Rights.
Read an exclusive Q&A with Dr. Beyrer.
Wednesday, April 9
"Health Beyond Boundaries" a Cross-cultural Panel Discussion
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MUSC panelists share their first-hand experiences practicing research and delivering health care in their respective home countries and in the U.S. This roundtable discussion addresses perspectives on how health is shaped in different contexts, challenges, barriers and strategies.
Panelists
Yosra Alkabab, M.D.
Assistant Professor, MUSC College of Medicine (Yemen)
Yosra Alkabab is an infectious diseases physician scientist with a focus on tuberculosis (TB) and other mycobacterial infections. Born and raised in Yemen, she pursued her medical education, including Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases training, in Saudi Arabia. Driven by a strong desire to contribute to clinical research in TB and infectious diseases of poverty, Dr. Alkabab was accepted into the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Infectious Diseases Research Pathway at the University of Virginia (UVA). After completing her fellowship, Dr. Alkabab joined the Medical University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Her research focuses on the role of metabolic syndrome in TB treatment outcomes, including anti-TB pharmacokinetics. Her work has demonstrated that, for people with both diabetes and TB, personalized dosing of anti-TB medicine based on individual pharmacokinetics can accelerate the time to microbiological cure. She collaborates with colleagues at UVA and Kibong’oto Infectious Disease Hospital in Tanzania to better understand the bidirectional biological interactions between TB and metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, and develop novel strategies to address both diseases. She recently received a mentored career development K23 award from the US National Institutes of Health to pursue research in TB and metabolic disorders.
In addition to her research, she works as an attending infectious diseases physician with focus on transplant infectious diseases and management of people with infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria.
Hermes Florez, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences at MUSC College of Medicine (Venezuela)
Hermes Florez received his MD from the University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and his PhD and MPH from the University of Miami School of Medicine. Following his initial career as Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine at Miami, he recently joined MUSC as Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at MUSC and as a member of the Endocrinology Medical Service at the Robert H. Johnson Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in Charleston.
As a public health physician-scientist with training in Endocrinology and Geriatrics, the primary goal of Dr. Florez’s research efforts is to reduce the burden of chronic diseases and promote healthier aging through the implementation of best practices for prevention and management. He has a current focus on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is the national and international leader of projects focused on the role of genetics, gene-environment interactions, fitness promotion and pharmacological interventions using oral hypoglycemic agents in determining outcome in pre-diabetes and diabetes care. His studies in the VA system and in Latin America have been funded by the Pan American Health Organization, the American Heart Association, the International Diabetes Foundation, the VA National Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, and the Center for Disease Control Prevention (CDC), as well as the NIH. As a member of the American Diaetes Association (ADA) Professional Practice committee, he leads national efforts to develop guidelines for diabetes management in older adults.
In addition to continuing his long-term research on diabetes disease mechanisms and, he will leverage his clinical and epidemiological expertise to analyze social determinants of health including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and their impact on chronic disease care in the VA health system. These efforts will seek to coordinate clinical and quality improvement initiatives to reduce the burden of COVID-19 in older adults, particularly those with other pre-existing disease and in long-term care settings.
Nahla Hamouda, M.D., Ph.D.
MUSC Postdoctoral Scholar, Regenerative Medicine and cell biology
Lecturer of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
Nahla Hamouda graduated from School of Medicine, Alexandria University, in Egypt in 2007. She received her master’s degree in clinical pharmacology in 2014 from the same university, after which she went to Japan to earn her Ph.D. from Kyoto Pharmaceutical University. Her major is gastrointestinal pharmacology where she studied the effect of change in the gut microbiota composition on the course of inflammatory bowel diseases.
She returned to Egypt in 2021, promoted to be a lecturer and started to teach pharmacology to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in three medical schools in Egypt, both private and National universities. She also worked as a lecturer and Postdoc visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan University in Japan for 3 years before joining MUSC. She had been exposed to the educational process among medical and pharmaceutical universities both in Egypt and Japan.
Currently she is extending her scope of research to uncover how our gut health affects our neuronal health both centrally and peripherally.
Thursday, April 10
18th Annual MUSC International Bazaar
11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: CMD Greenway
Friday, April 11
Global Health Week Poster Presentation Session
10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Drug Discovery Building Lobby
The Center for Global Health is excited to welcome you to the second-annual Global Health Week Poster Presentation Session on April 11. This year’s poster session will feature the work of MUSC students, residents, fellows, and/or post-docs who are engaged in global health related research, clinical, service, and educational projects. Featured abstracts will include work such as research, program evaluation, public health, clinical care and more completed by MUSC representatives in the United States and abroad.
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