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.

From his early days as a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin to leading the world's first clinical trial of an mRNA-based malaria vaccine, Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH's, career journey in global health highlights how a passion for service can lead to transformative global impact.