Season 4, Episode 2: In this inspiring episode, Anne E. Goldfeld, MD—physician-scientist, humanitarian, and recipient of the 2025 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award—joins Marla Dalton, CAE, and William Schaffner, MD, to reflect on a remarkable career in medicine, science, and global health. From treating patients in refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border to conducting groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, Goldfeld shares the path that led her to a career that is tackling 2 of the greatest epidemics of our time: tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
A native Californian, Dr. Goldfeld attended Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine and a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a postdoctoral research training in molecular biology at Harvard University. She is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, where her research laboratory is located. She is also Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and a physician in the infectious disease division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. On the frontlines of the TB and AIDS crises, Dr. Goldfeld co-founded transformative treatment and research programs—bringing care to some of the world’s most underserved populations—that have led to fundamental discoveries that have saved countless lives.
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