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Nondiscrimination Policy Update
Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.
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Davidson H. Hamer, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FASTMH, FISTM, is an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a professor of global health and medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health and Chobanian & Avesidian School of Medicine. Dr. Hamer is also an adjunct professor of nutrition at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and
... Policy. He specializes in tropical infectious diseases and has extensive field experience in neonatal and child survival research, including studies of micronutrient interventions, maternal and neonatal health, malaria, pneumonia, and diarrheal diseases. Dr. Hamer has been involved in over 50 studies in developing countries that evaluated interventions for improving neonatal survival, improving access for pregnant women to emergency obstetrical care, treatment and prevention of malaria, HIV/AIDS, micronutrient deficiencies, diarrheal disease, and pneumonia. He is currently working on projects in Bangladesh, Zambia, and the United States, some of which include neonatal sepsis prevention using prebiotics and probiotics in Bangladesh, nutritional status of adolescents in Zambia, and a prospective cohort study that includes a biobank of US immigrants with Chagas disease. He is also the surveillance lead for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, a global network of 70 sites in 31 countries that conducts surveillance of emerging infectious diseases using returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of infection. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Tropical infectious diseases, neonatal and child survival research including micronutrient interventions, maternal and neonatal health, malaria, pneumonia, diarrheal diseases
Travel and Tropical Medicine, General Infectious Diseases, Professor of Global Health and Medicine, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Residency
Internal Medicine, MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center, 1987-1990
Education
University of Vermont College of Medicine, 1987
Board Certifications
Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine