Welcome

The Division of Geographic Medicine was established in the Department of Medicine in 1988.  The Division has a unique focus and mission both in the Department and at UAB in that it bridges into international public health programs and issues.  The Division has a minimal clinical commitment at UAB and is primarily focused on laboratory and field-based research.   The primary mission of the Division is to conduct the highest quality, state of the art scientific and programmatic research on infectious diseases of worldwide significance.

Thematically the interests of the Division can be categorized into four programmatic areas: HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and emerging infectious diseases.  In addition, the Division has expertise in clinical tropical medicine and runs a premier training program in this area.

The full-time faculty members currently have on-going collaborative clinical and research programs with hospitals and laboratories in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Peru, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Russia, China, Mongolia, Thailand, Rwanda, Zambia and the Caribbean basin.

The Division of Geographic Medicine of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has a primary objective to conduct the highest quality, state of the art, scientific research which in turn contributes to solutions to the major diseases in humans.

In support of this mission, the Division is committed to:

• Development of innovative, creative projects which promote interesting, vital, state of the art research, and enhance our ability to compete for scarce funding resources


• Maintaining a visible reputation for publication of our results in high quality journals


• Providing an environment for achieving excellence in our contribution to the education of students and trainees and motivating them through our example and instruction


• Being recognized by grant agencies and support sources for consistently being responsive to their needs and demonstrating our appreciation by performing top quality work and by consistently communicating our work to funding sources in timely, comprehensible reports


• Serving the university community in ways which contributes to its scientific, educational and organizational objectives


• Providing an environment which promotes opportunities for achieving personal and academic excellence as well as career advancement