Fighting Infection: AIDS to SARS to ZIKA: Where Do We Go From Here?

Dr. Cohen is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, and the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology at University of North Carolina. He received his BS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and MD from the Rush Medical College. His research focuses on the transmission and prevention of transmission of STD pathogens including HIV. Much of his work has been conducted at the research sites he and his group have developed in Lilongwe, Malawi and Beijing, China. Dr. Cohen and his coworkers have identified the concentration of HIV in genital secretions required for transmission of HIV, and the effects of genital tract inflammation on HIV. Dr. Cohen is currently studying Zika as a sexually transmitted disease.

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