C. William "Bill" Wester, MD, MPH
Global Health Research Interests: Epidemiology, Global Health Systems/Delivery, HIV/AIDS, Implementation Science, Infectious Diseases, Implementation science and long-term HIV complications, specifically non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with a particular focus on kidney disease
Countries: Mozambique and Nigeria
Dr. Wester received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health.
An Infectious Disease epidemiologist and internist with extensive HIV/AIDS research experience in resource-limited settings of the world, Dr. Wester's research focuses on implementation science and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with a particular focus on kidney complications.
Through his faculty appointment at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), Dr. Wester currently works with the scale-up efforts and site mentoring of large public antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in Africa (as Project Director of a large PEPFAR program in Mozambique). Before joining Vanderbilt, he lived and worked in Botswana for eight years, with the Harvard School of Public Health where he helped establish and maintain its national adult ART program.
Education
MD, Dartmouth Medical School
MPH, Harvard University