Davidson Hamer

Davidson Hamer, MD, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, a faculty member in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, and an attending physician in infectious diseases and Director of the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Hamer is an infectious disease specialist and medical epidemiologist with particular interests in emerging diseases, climate change, tropical medicine, travel medicine, infection control, and antimicrobial resistance.

Dr. Hamer has been involved in travel medicine for thirty years. From 2014 to 2021, Dr. Hamer served as the principal investigator and, since September 2021, he has been the Surveillance Lead, of GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of 71 sites in 29 countries that uses returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of disease emergence and transmission patterns throughout the world. He is currently the Director of the BU COVID-19 Surveillance and Response Team and was a member of the Medical Advisory Group to the President of Boston University, which until its purpose had been served, helped with the COVID-19 mitigation strategies necessary for keeping the campus healthy and safe.

Pronouns: he/him

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