Scott Heysell, MD, MPH, the Thomas H. Hunter Associate Professor of International Medicine, and former UVA medical student Pranay Sinha MD, who is an assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases and Boston University, wrote an in-depth article for The Wire about the massive but correctable impact undernutrition has on human health, and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis.
Dr. Heysell also serves as director of the UVA Center for Global Health Equity. His work focuses on caring for patients with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, and tuberculosis and research on infectious diseases’ impact on international health.
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