Mark Dybul, MD, is Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and Professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Professor Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist, teacher, and administrator, most recently as the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria. After graduating from Georgetown Medical School in Washington DC, he joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a research fellow where he conducted basic and clinical studies on HIV virology, immunology and treatment optimization, including the first randomized, controlled trial with combination antiretroviral therapy in Africa under director Dr Anthony Fauci.

Professor Dybul was one of the founding architects in the formation of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). After serving as Chief Medical Officer, Assistant Deputy, and Acting Director, he was appointed the US Global AIDS Coordinator, with the rank of Ambassador at the level of an Assistant Secretary of State in 2006. He served until early 2009. Dybul has written extensively in scientific and policy literature, he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received several Honorary Degrees and awards, including a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, from Georgetown University.