Horsburgh Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award.

C. Robert Horsburgh, a professor of epidemiology at SPH, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Region of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

The union’s mission is to promote better lung health care globally through advocacy, education, research, technical assistance, and training—with tuberculosis control a priority.

For more than 30 years, Horsburgh has focused much of his research on tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, and opportunistic infections in AIDS. He has chaired the tuberculosis committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, is a past chair of both the US Tuberculosis Trials Consortium and the US Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium, and co-founded RESIST-TB, an international movement to promote and conduct research on the treatment and prevention of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Horsburgh is also a professor of biostatistics at SPH and a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, specializing in infectious diseases.