We are thrilled to announce that, effective October 1, 2025, Dr. Kelly Gebo will become Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

Dr, Gebo has spent 37 years at Johns Hopkins, earning her undergraduate degree at the Krieger School of Public Health, her MPH at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her MD at the School of Medicine. She was an Osler Medical Resident, received her post-doctoral training in the Infectious Diseases Fellowship program, and completed an additional two years of training here as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Gebo earned her Johns Hopkins Blue Jay wings.

Known for cross disciplinary collaboration, her clinical research has had tremendous impact on HIV, hepatitis, health disparities, healthcare utilization, and optimizing patient outcomes. She served as co-PI ofthe HIV Research Network, a longitudinal cohort study evaluating clinical outcomes and health care utilization patterns among 21 high-volume sites providing care to more than 20,000 patients.

Additionally, she served from 2018-2020 as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for NIH’s All of Us Research Program, whose goal is to recruit 1M research participants who were traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research to advance individualized health care and optimize health outcomes for all. More recently, Dr. Gebo led the Johns Hopkins mpox clinical research team, and her research with colleagues here at Johns Hopkins demonstrated the utility of convalescent plasma as an early treatment for outpatients with COVID and its impact on Long-COVID complications. She has been recognized for research impact by the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Gebo is an obvious choice for her new position. A recipient of the School of Medicine’s David M. Levine Award for Excellence in Mentoring, perhaps her greatest legacy at JHU is her decades of dedication to the education and career development of our students and trainees. She served as Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health Studies at Johns Hopkins University, was the inaugural Vice Provost for Education, and is Deputy Director for Clinical Research Education, Training and Career Development and leads the Clinical Research Scholars Program at the Institute of Clinical and Translational Research. She has mentored individual undergraduate, public health, and medical students, and infectious diseases trainees and junior faculty. Her commitment to training the next generation of experts in our field is truly phenomenal. 

Kelly leaves a big hole in the Division of Infectious Diseases and across the university. We wish her the best on this exciting new path along her journey.