Global Health Institute

On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, the "Conversations in Global Health" lecture series welcomed Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer (retired) as he reflected on his career and shared insight into the fields of global health and development. Apart from the experiential wisdom Ziemer has acquired from his time serving with the U.S. Navy, USAID and the President’s Malaria Initiative, he also shared with us his refreshingly human perspective—one that is genuinely concerned with and focused on the individuals and communities that are directly affected by health and humanitarian crises.

On March 19, 2019, Dr. Mark Dybul spoke to Conversations in Global Health, a one credit pilot course where students have the opportunity to learn from and speak with experts in the field of global health. The conversation opened with Dr. Dybul discussing his academic background at Georgetown University where he studied theology, philosophy, and poetry. However, the trajectory of his professional life radically changed when he read an article that discussed the devastation of the AIDS epidemic on the African continent. He decided to pursue a career in medicine as a way to work towards combating the high death count and hopelessness that the disease induced. He then went on to be a leading voice at the intersection of health and development, serving as the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and as the head of PEPFAR.