Chris Beyrer is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Training Program in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Science and as the Founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research and of the university’s Center for Global Health. Dr Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research in South and Southeast Asia, subSaharan Africa and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as among underserved communities in the United States. His work focuses on HIV epidemiology, HIV prevention and the intersections of health and human rights, primarily around key populations. He served as President of the International AIDS Society (IAS) from 2014 to 2016 and, in that capacity, as International Co-Chair for the IAS Science Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2015 and for the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2016.