Robert Bollinger, MD, MPH
Advisor to Glohea at JHU, The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University, and The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Dr. Robert Bollinger is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the School of Nursing’s Department of Community-Public Health. Dr. Bollinger has more than 35 years of experience in international public health, clinical research and education dealing with such global health priorities as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, dengue, antibiotic-resistant infections and other emerging diseases. He is also the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) and the associate director for medicine of the Center for Global Health.
He also serves as director of both the Johns Hopkins Fogarty India Program—a component of the NIH Fogarty International Center—and the IMEC-JHU Partnership to advance applications in health care. Under Dr. Bollinger’s leadership of the Fogarty India Program, short-term and degree training has been provided to more than 100 visiting scientists at Johns Hopkins, and in-country training has been provided to more than 2,000 Indian scientists.
Dr. Bollinger’s research interests include identifying biological and behavioral risk factors for HIV transmission; characterizing the clinical progression and treatment of HIV and related infections; and implementing science research projects to optimize healthcare capacity and delivery in resource-limited settings.
Dr. Bollinger is author of more than 150 peer-reviewed research publications and 15 book chapters, including the first and largest studies of risk factors for HIV transmission in India, the cloning and sequencing of the first HIV viruses from India, the only studies characterizing the primary immune response to HIV in India, and the demonstration of increased risk of HIV acquisition with recent HSV infection and lack of circumcision.
He has been invited to participate in public health training programs and expert committees, and has been consulted for his expertise by more than 15 countries.
Dr. Bollinger has served as a member of the US Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and as a member of the PACHA International Subcommittee, and is a current member of the Institute of Medicine Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety.
Working with partners in more than 20 countries, Dr. Bollinger and CCGHE faculty pioneered the development and use of distance learning and their award-winning mobile health platform emocha® in resource-limited settings.
Dr. Bollinger received an undergraduate degree from Haverford College, an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine training at the University of Maryland Medical Systems, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
Siam K Rezwan ‘22
Founder and Chair of The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University; Editor-in-Chief of The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review; Founder and President of Glohea at JHU
Siam is an M.D. candidate at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a graduate of Johns Hopkins. He is Founder and Chair of The Global Health Leaders Conference at JHU.
He is also Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review, a student and faculty-led global health journal for high school student authors. He is a Board Member and Program Director of BERNOSSUS, a community health and education center for underserved women and children in Bangladesh where he directs its zero-cost cleft lip and palate treatment program.
He conducts research as a part of the Clinical Research Core in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, through which he has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and presented his work at major surgical conferences.
Siam is a former Research Assistant in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Medical College of Wisconsin and Ubicomp Lab at Marquette University. He has interned at The University of Chicago Institute for Population and Precision Health, The University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences, GE Healthcare Japan, St. Luke’s International Graduate School of Public Health in Tokyo, the Maternal and Child Health Division of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (ICDDRB), BRAC, and The University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
Priyal Patel ‘25
Associate Director of The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University; Associate Director of Design and Marketing of The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Priyal is a Senior at Johns Hopkins planning to double major in Neuroscience and Public Health from New Castle, Delaware. At Hopkins, she is a member of Johns Hopkins Model United Nations as well as South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH). Outside of Hopkins, she is involved with the Blood Bank of Delmarva and the Intercollegiate Neuroscience Research Journal.
Het Patel ‘25
Director of The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University; Director of Operations of The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Het is a Senior at Johns Hopkins University pursuing a Bachelors and Masters in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Plainfield, Indiana. He is a Student Researcher in Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute working under the Provost's Undergraduate Research Award. At Hopkins, he has been involved with the Center of Social Concern as a Chair for over 40 student organizations, the Learning Den as a tutor, and a board member for the Whiting School of Engineering Curriculum Committee.
Renat Rayhan ‘24
Associate Director of Programming & Engagement of The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University
Renat Rayhan is a graduate from Johns Hopkins University from San Diego, California. He is a research intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Cardiology Department, doing research studies on inflammation and atherosclerosis. He serves as a director of outreach for a student-led national organization called College Process Prep, which coaches high school students to succeed in the college application process. Additionally, he is part of Red Cross regional deployment, which assigns people to health and disaster crises in Maryland and beyond. He also serves as a volunteer in MEDLIFE which works to serve underrepresented communities in the United States and abroad, and he is also is a member of JHU Baltimore community health organization ABC Health and Partners in Health (PIH). On campus, he performs as a piano player for the Homewood Chamber Music ensemble.
Peixi (Olivia) Ge ‘25
Associate Director of Social Media & Marketing and Associate Director of Programming & Engagement of The Global Health Leaders Conference at Johns Hopkins University
Olivia is a freshman at Johns Hopkins majoring in Public Health and Biology from Hang Zhou, China. On campus, she is involved in Advocates for Baltimore Community Health, Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations, and Smart Women Securities. Additionally, she is an assistant leader of Hopkins Collaboration Committee of Economics Club. Olivia has research interests in autoimmune diseases and healthcare systems.