Professor of Global Health and Medicine
Boston University School of Public Health
Davidson Hamer, MD is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, a faculty member in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, and an attending physician in infectious diseases and Director of the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Hamer is an infectious disease specialist and medical epidemiologist with particular interests in emerging diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine, infection control, and antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Hamer has been involved in travel and tropical medicine for thirty years and from 2014 to 2021, Dr. Hamer served as the principal investigator and, since September 2021, the Surveillance Lead, of GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of 71 sites in 29 countries that uses returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of disease emergence and transmission patterns throughout the world. He is currently the co-lead for the climate change and emerging infectious diseases core for the BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research.