Global Health Institute

GU faculty, student, staff, and alumni who wish to attend in person may email globalhealth@georgetown.edu. Use the link to register for virtual attendance.

Francis Collins is a physician-geneticist whose groundbreaking work has shaped the landscape of biomedical research and public health. In this conversation, Dr. Collins will share insights from his leadership of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the International Human Genome Project, along with his roles in collaborative research addressing global health challenges.

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Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading scientists and geneticists. He served as the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health for 12 years across three presidencies. In that role, he guided the United States’ biomedical research in everything from basic science to clinical trials, including a historic series of research partnerships addressing diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, neuroscience, precision medicine, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, he served as director of the International Human Genome Project, coordinating a consortium of laboratories in six countries to produce the first-ever complete sequence of the human DNA instruction book in 2003. Dr. Collin’s research laboratory has discovered a number of important genes, including those responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington’s disease, a familial endocrine cancer syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

John T. Monahan, J.D., is a senior advisor to the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a senior scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.

This event is hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.