concurrent positions of associate provost for global health at the Boston University Medical Campus and Associate Dean for Global Health at the School of Public Health. Keusch is the associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and the director of the collaborative core. Research Keusch has experience in basic and clinical investigation into health problems such as HIV, malnutrition and diarrheal diseases. He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious diseases. His research has focused on molecular pathogenesis of enteric infections and vaccine development and on the effects of malnutrition on immune response and host defenses. He has conducted studies in Central America, Asia and Africa, where he directed one of the NIH-supported International Collaboration on AIDS Research projects on the epidemiology and natural history of chronic diarrhea and wasting syndrome ("slim disease"). Awards and honors From 1974 to 1979, Keusch had a NIH Research Career Development Award. In 1976, Keusch was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He won the Maxwell Finland Lectureship in 1997. In 2002, he became a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2002, Keusch won a Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for his long-term commitment to excellence in research, teaching and clinical practice and for fostering research training among young scientists in the United States and developing countries. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America a member of the Association of American Physicians. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Tufts University School of Medicine faculty 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American physicians 21st-century American scientists National Institutes of Health people Members of the National Academy of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty Boston University School of Public Health faculty American academic administrators Columbia College (New York) alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America