Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Claudia Hawkins is Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Director of the Center for Global Communicable and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She has more than 15 years of experience conducting global health research on HIV and HIV/HBV co-infection, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research spans epidemiologic studies of treatment outcomes in persons with HIV and HIV/HBV co-infection; the development and implementation of point-of-care diagnostics for HBV and HCV; biomarker discovery for HBV cure; and clinical trials of novel and potentially curative therapeutics. Dr. Hawkins is an active member of the Hepatitis Transformative Science Group and the HBV Cure Working Group within the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). She is also a member of the HBV section of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults, the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study Liver Working Group, and the International HBV Forum for Collaborative Research. In addition, Dr. Hawkins directs two NIH Fogarty–funded HIV and Infectious Disease research training grants and has a distinguished record of mentoring medical students, residents, fellows, and international trainees.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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