Faculty honors

Carlos del Rio, Rollins Professor and chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health, received one of the highest honors in health and medicine with his election in 2013 to the Institute of Medicine. Del Rio is director of the Emory AIDS International Training and Research Program and co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, both based at Rollins. He also is an infectious disease specialist at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital.

His research program, funded by the CDC and NIH, focuses on decreasing barriers to care among HIV-infected persons, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations, such as substance abusers. He also works to improve access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients and build human research capacity in countries