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Our goal is to make transformative scientific advances that lead to the prevention, treatment and cures of infectious diseases impacting children and families around the world.

The vision of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research (CGIDR) is to make transformative scientific advances that lead to the prevention, treatment and cures of infectious diseases impacting children and families around the world.

CGIDR is the largest pediatric infectious disease research program in the U.S. Our cross-disciplinary team of researchers are working to find solutions to infectious diseases that can pose risks to our communities, and disproportionately impact children and those in poverty.

Our team members work to understand, treat and prevent a wide spectrum of infectious diseases, and have made notable advances in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, human papillomavirus, group B streptococcus and SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.