Roger Glass, MD, Ph.D., will reflect on his global health career in this special Department of Medicine Grand Rounds focused on health policy and public health. Dr. Glass, a GUMC Cura Personalis Award recipient, stepped down in January 2023 as director of the Fogarty International Center and NIH Associate Director for International Research, positions he had held since 2006.
This event is co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Medical Center, the School of Medicine, and the Global Health Institute.
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Roger Glass served as director of the Fogarty International Center and associate director for international research for the National Institutes of Health from 2006 to January 2023. An award-winning researcher dedicated to the prevention of gastroenteritis, Glass has co-authored more than 600 research papers and chapters. His research has been targeted towards epidemiologic studies to anticipate the introduction of rotavirus vaccines. He has maintained field studies in India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Russia, Vietnam, China, and elsewhere, and he is fluent and often lectures in five languages. Glass is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).