Best Infectious Disease
Partners In Health is a global health organization that works to provide high-quality healthcare to the world's poorest and most marginalized populations. They focus on treating infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria while also addressing social determinants of health such as h...
Peter Piot is a Belgian microbiologist and physician who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 while investigating an outbreak in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). He served as the founding executive director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008, playing a central role in coordi...
Anthony Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940, he graduated from Cornell University Medical College and joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968. He...
Tom Frieden is an American physician and epidemiologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2009 to 2017. During his tenure, he oversaw the agency's responses to major public health crises, including the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak and th...
Julie Gerberding is an American infectious disease physician who served as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002 to 2009. As the first woman to lead the agency, she managed the U.S. public health response to global threats, including SARS, avian influenza, an...
Richard Besser is an American pediatrician who served as acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. He subsequently became president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic organization...
American infectious disease physician Rochelle Walensky directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023, leading its COVID-19 pandemic response.
French infectious disease specialist and microbiologist who became globally controversial in 2020 for promoting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
