Gerald T. Keusch

Gerald T. Keusch is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator. Keusch is the associate provost for global health at Boston University Medical Campus and a professor of international health and medicine at Boston University School of Public Health. He was the director of John E. Fogarty International Center and the associate director of international research at the National Institutes of Health from 1998 to 2003.

Education Keusch earned a B.A. from Columbia College. In 1963, he completed an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Keusch performed both his internship and residency at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Over the course of Keush's tenure the programs of the Center were expanded to focus on such critical global issues as infectious diseases and the growing incidence and severity of non-communicable diseases. Keusch stepped down as Director of the Fogarty Center in 2003 to join the faculty of Boston University as professor of international health and medicine in the School of Public Health. He holds the 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.

Research Keusch has experience in basic and clinical investigation into health problems such as HIV, malnutrition and diarrheal diseases. He is an 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"). 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.