Professor Charles Holmes

Charles Holmes is the Director of the Georgetown Center for Innovation in Global Health and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He also serves as a Distinguished Scholar and Program Director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Charles Holmes is a physician who has held senior global health leadership roles in government, academia and nongovernmental organizations. He previously served as Chief Medical Officer and Deputy United States Global AIDS Coordinator for the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In that role, he led many policy and programme initiatives to expand programme impact and improve the accountability of United States investments and served as the founding Director of the Office of Research and Science.

He previously served as the CEO of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, a Zambian organization supporting the Ministry of Health in the large-scale delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment services, conducting policy relevant research and training local and international health-care leaders and researchers.

He also served as the principal investigator for numerous implementation science studies in Zambia aimed at improving data on HIV programme outcomes and evaluating transformative models of care delivery to promote greater scale-up and quality of health services.

He is a frequent adviser to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has served in several WHO antiretroviral therapy guidelines committees. He previously served as a member of the WHO HIVResNet Steering Group between 2018 and 2021 and co-chaired WHO Working Group  on quality of care of HIV.