In-Person Webinar Viewing: Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture
Our annual Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture honors the work of Dr. Paul G. Quie and Dr. Phillip K. Peterson, striving to continue their legacy of global health leadership and to inspire the next generation of global health leaders.
Drs. Quie and Peterson served on the original steering committee that created the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, and Dr. Peterson served as CGHSR's first director. As infectious disease research scientists, their collective 100-year careers have had an impact on countless trainees, colleagues, and partners across the United States and the globe.
The Role of Mentorship in Global Health Research Training
For those on the UMN Twin Cities campus, we are offering an in-person webinar viewing of our 2025 Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture and a post-lecture panel discussion on the merits of mentorship and research training to advance equitable global health partnerships.
Featuring David Boulware, MD, MPH, and Nadia Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed, the panel will be moderated by Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility Executive Director Shailey Prasad, MD, MPH.
Lunch will be provided starting at 11:30am. Space for this in-person event is limited.
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Speakers
Dr. David Boulware is an infectious disease physician-scientist with formal training in clinical trials, public health, and tropical medicine. Dr. Boulware combines his clinical research with nested basic science investigations into disease pathogenesis to conduct translational research. His primary research interests are in meningitis in resource-limited areas including diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and quality improvement initiatives incorporating cost-effectiveness analyses in order to translate knowledge into improved care.
Dr. Boulware's current research is focused on improving the clinical outcomes of HIV-infected persons with cryptococcal meningitis, the second most common AIDS-defining opportunistic infection in Sub-Saharan Africa and the most common cause of adult meningitis. Additionally, Dr. Boulware has been motivated to improve the diagnostics for TB meningitis, and now that TB meningitis can be promptly diagnosed, to also improve the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Dr. Boulware leads a multidisciplinary, international research team with active research collaborations with partners in Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Brazil, Botswana, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Nadia Sam-Agudu is a clinician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases, implementation science and global health. She splits her time between the US and Nigeria. Dr. Sam-Agudu is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Global Pediatrics Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She also serves as Senior Technical Advisor for Pediatric and Adolescent HIV and is a Senior Research Faculty at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria.
Her research is focused on the application of implementation science methods in the prevention and treatment of HIV and other major infectious diseases affecting children in African countries. She also provides her expertise in collaborations and networks for implementation science training and capacity building in the US and in Nigeria and other African countries. Dr. Sam-Agudu is a member of the Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) and leads the Central and West Africa Implementation Science Alliance (CAWISA).
Dr. Shailey Prasad is the executive director of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility; the Associate Vice President of Global & Rural Health; Vice Chair for Education in Family Medicine & Community Health; and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health. He is the co-PI of the Northern Pacific Global Health Consortium that has global health training programs in Peru, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, India, Nepal and Thailand through the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Prasad is one of the founders of the Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships that looks at ethical frameworks in global health engagements. He co-developed the India-based ‘Global Future Physician’ program for undergraduates and the ‘Globalization, Global Health and Leadership’ course for graduate students from the US. Since 2015, he has facilitated and led capacity building activities across academic institutions and professional organizations in Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, South Africa, Zambia, Indonesia and India.
Support the Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture
To support this lecture and the continued legacy of Drs. Quie and Peterson, consider giving to the Paul Quie and Phil Peterson Global Health Fund