Chris Beyrer is the Director of the

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Global Health Institute. He was previously a professor of

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at the

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, in the United States. He was president of the

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from 2014 to 2016.

Early life

Beyrer was born in Bern, Switzerland, the son of Charles Beyrer, an American medical student. The family later moved to East Islip, New York, where Beyrer went to school. In 1981 he graduated in history from

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. He spent time in Asia learning about

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. He graduated in medicine from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in

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, in 1988, and completed a

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degree at Johns Hopkins in 1991. From 1992 to 1997 he was in Thailand, where he worked on AIDS prevention. He returned to Johns Hopkins in 1997.

Career

At Johns Hopkins, Beyrer is a professor of

, of

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and of health, behavior and society. He is director of the Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, and of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, which he founded. He is an investigator for the Center for AIDS Research and an associate director of the Center for Global Health. Beyrer was elected to the

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of the U.S.

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in 2014.

References

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