Tulio de Oliveira, PhD, a Brazilian-born scientist who calls South Africa home, has become one of the world's most sought-after bioinformatics specialists and leaders in infectious disease outbreak surveillance. His contributions to global health are many and include the identification of major variants of concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Beta and Omicron. Today, he is on a mission to ensure that genomic science in Africa doesn't just contribute to the field of global health, but helps lead it. In this episode, Dr. Rob Murphy talks to de Oliveira about his career path in global health and why he thinks now is a critical time for young people to enter the field.

From the HIV wards of New York City in the 1980s to leadership roles in Uganda during the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy through PEPFAR, Dr. Yukari Manabe has seen major transformations in infectious disease diagnostics, treatment and care. In this episode, she talks about her journey in medicine and global health and why her work in building local capacity in the Global South may be her most important legacy of all. She is the Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation at Johns Hopkins University.

Egon Ozer, MD, PhD, leads the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution at the Havey Institute for Global Health and is helping researchers at Northwestern University and around the world use genome sequencing to track emerging diseases and prepare for infectious threats. In this episode he talks about his career in global health and the cutting edge research his team is leading in Chicago, Pakistan, Peru, Bolivia, Nigeria and beyond.