Donald Thea

Donald Thea, MD, is a Professor of International Health at Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts. He has also been the Director of the Clinical Research Unit. This unit oversees a portfolio of international clinical research in the areas of infectious diseases, tropical medicine, pneumonia, mental health, HIV diagnosis and treatment, and pharmaceutical policy. Prior to that Dr. Thea was the Scientific Director of the Health, Education and Social Development Unit at the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Founder and Director of the Travel Medicine Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Dr. Thea has spent over 20 years doing clinical research on infectious and tropical diseases (including malaria), and most substantially in HIV infection. Dr. Thea was the Director of the Clinical Unit at Projet SIDA, Congo, the first, and one of the most productive international HIV research collaborations. (This is me - Update Profile)