Charles Holmes

Charles Holmes, MD, MPH, is Director of the Georgetown University Center for Innovation in Global Health, Professor of Medicine, and a Distinguished Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, and multiple private sector organizations. He served as PEPFAR’s Chief Medical Officer and Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator in the Department of State during the Obama-Biden administration, and as CEO of CIDRZ, where he is now on the Board of Directors.

A participant takes part in an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign ahead of World Aids Day, in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

Governance

HIV/AIDS and COVID: A Dual Battle

by Charles Holmes

HIV/AIDS and COVID: A Dual Battle

A person with HIV/AIDS is helped to his bedroom by caregivers from a community home-based care team visiting him at his home in Matero township on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia on April 17, 2012. The picture shows the torso of a man wearing a loose-fitting light blue shirt being helped by two other people. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Governance

A Global Imperative for Local Support

by Charles Holmes

The novel coronavirus pandemic raises the stakes for strengthening local partners and capacity to deliver health care

Average level of preparation of the health system capacities for responding to an infectious epidemic, as measured by Joint External Evaluations of national progress in meeting targets of the International Health Regulations. Photo shows a map of Africa with different countries colored one of four colors according to the data. GIDA/Georgetown Infectious Disease Atlas

Governance

Africa is not Starting from Scratch on COVID-19

by Charles Holmes, Matthew Boyce, Rebecca Katz

Success against coronavirus will require national leadership, engaged local responders, and strong cooperation with NGOs