Dr. Dowdy is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His primary research interests center on the diagnosis and prevention of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s leading cause of infectious mortality (outside of the COVID-19 pandemic). His work combines observational and experimental epidemiology (e.g., transmission studies and randomized trials), health economics (costing and cost-effectiveness analyses), population-level transmission modeling, and implementation science. Dr. Dowdy is the director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Track at Johns Hopkins, the lead investigator for the JHSPH TB Modeling and Translational Epidemiology Group, and a core faculty member of the Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC). His work is funded by diverse agencies including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – and it has been used to inform TB and TB/HIV-related policy in multiple countries and local jurisdictions.