Bruce D. Walker

Bruce D. Walker is an American physician and scientist whose infectious disease research has produced many findings regarding HIV/AIDS. He became interested in studying HIV/AIDS after practicing on the front lines of the epidemic in the early 1980s, prior to the identification of HIV as the etiologic agent and prior to the availability of viable treatment options.

An infectious disease specialist and researcher, Walker is the founding director of the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard. He is also an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an adjunct professor at Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a founding co-director of the Africa Health Research Institute, formerly known as KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH).

He played an active role in COVID-19 research, helping found and co-lead the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) and advance vaccine development with the Ragon Institute.

Walker was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009. Provided by Wikipedia