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Scott Heysell, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, Department of Medicine
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Research takes on all forms, from discovery of new knowledge to application of that knowledge to the people that need it the most. And I have the opportunity, and I'm so grateful to be able to work on different parts of that research continuum. With partners across the globe tackling infections, new infections like Covid 19 or ancient and persistent pandemics like tuberculosis.
My name is Scott Heysell and I'm an infectious diseases and internal medicine clinician. I'm the Thomas H. Hunter Professor of International Medicine, and I direct our university's center for Global Health Equity. Our work is an infection. We work in the infections of poverty like tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, for instance, is one of the leading killers from infection worldwide. So we work to develop diagnostics and therapeutics for tuberculosis to improve outcome, and do so in partnership with those communities.
Our work impacts human health for Virginians and for communities globally, such as those with whom we deeply collaborate in Tanzania, Uganda, Bangladesh. When we reduce airborne transmission from an infection like tuberculosis or reduce mortality in communities that are so economically vulnerable, we can interrupt cycles of poverty and we can rebalance instances of health inequity.
Scott Heysell, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, Department of Medicine
Transcript:
Research takes on all forms, from discovery of new knowledge to application of that knowledge to the people that need it the most. And I have the opportunity, and I'm so grateful to be able to work on different parts of that research continuum. With partners across the globe tackling infections, new infections like Covid 19 or ancient and persistent pandemics like tuberculosis.
My name is Scott Heysell and I'm an infectious diseases and internal medicine clinician. I'm the Thomas H. Hunter Professor of International Medicine, and I direct our university's center for Global Health Equity. Our work is an infection. We work in the infections of poverty like tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, for instance, is one of the leading killers from infection worldwide. So we work to develop diagnostics and therapeutics for tuberculosis to improve outcome, and do so in partnership with those communities.
Our work impacts human health for Virginians and for communities globally, such as those with whom we deeply collaborate in Tanzania, Uganda, Bangladesh. When we reduce airborne transmission from an infection like tuberculosis or reduce mortality in communities that are so economically vulnerable, we can interrupt cycles of poverty and we can rebalance instances of health inequity.
