John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and McCormick School of Engineering, Executive Director, Institute for Global Health and Director, Institute for Global Health-Center for Global Communicable Disease. He has worked on Ebola outbreak, surveillance of infectious diseases around the globe. His research includes drug development of new antiretroviral drugs and vaccines for HIV and viral hepatitis and the scale-up of therapy for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a special adviser for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program in Nigeria, sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, where he has overseen the setup of 42 clinics that currently treat over 75,000 patients with HIV/AIDS. He is currently leading a new program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) designed to fast-track new technologies capable of increasing COVID-19 testing capacity up to 100-fold above current standards.