Season 4, Episode 2: In this inspiring episode about courage, equity, and relentless advocacy, 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 global health. From treating patients in refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border to conducting groundbreaking research at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital, Goldfeld shares the path that led her to a career dedicated to tackling 2 of the greatest epidemics of our time: tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
A native Californian, she attended Brown University and University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA in zoology with honors. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship and postdoctoral research in molecular biology at Harvard Medical School. On the frontlines of the AIDS crisis in Boston and later in Cambodian refugee camps, she helped shape innovative TB and HIV treatment programs that have saved countless lives worldwide. She is a professor of medicine at Harvard, senior investigator in the program in cellular and molecular medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a physician in the infectious diseases division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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