Faculty

Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD | David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD | Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD

Staff

Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant

Christopher W. Woods, MD, MPH

VA Medical Center

Co-Director, Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health

Dr. Woods is the Co-Director of the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health and member of the Education and Service subcommittees of the Duke University Global Health initiative. He is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology at Duke University; an adjunct associate professor in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; and Chief of Infectious Diseases and clinical microbiology, and hospital epidemiologist for the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. Woods is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and medical microbiology.

Dr. Woods is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he served in the Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch of the National Center for Infectious Diseases. He formulated his interest in global health as a participant in the clinical rotation at Tenwek Hospital, during his internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center. During his time at the CDC, Dr. Woods performed programmatic work and outbreak investigations throughout the U.S. and the developing world. He has validated the World Health Organization (WHO) response to epidemic meningococcal disease in sub-Saharan Africa through his work in northeastern Ghana. He also helped develop the WHO response to the outbreak of Buruli ulcer in that country.

After the massive El Niño event of 1997, Dr. Woods was deployed to the Kenya-Somalia border, where he investigated the largest outbreak of Rift Valley fever ever recorded. As a result, Dr. Woods developed a particular interest in zoonotic diseases and has since evaluated a series of anthrax outbreaks associated with the deterioration of veterinary control programs in Kazakhstan. More recently, Dr Woods served as a special consultant to the WHO for evaluation of meningoencephalitis in the Maldives. During his infectious diseases fellowship, Dr. Woods developed and coordinated a collaborative effort with CDC, Stanford University, and the U.S. military to describe the epidemiology of febrile disease in urban Nepal and to evaluate the performance and development of novel diagnostic testing. He is currently the curator of ICE micro , a repository for the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) that includes over 1300 bacterial and fungal isolates from patients with infective endocarditis from all over the world.

Dr. Woods has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and has a particular interest in the development of medical microbiology capacity in the developing world and the epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Woods is a partner in the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biological Threats and has been funded by that agency to evaluate the epidemiology of West Nile virus infection in the Southeastern U.S. Dr. Woods is also part of several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research and training grants.