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Dr. Honorine Ward Tufts School of Medicine

Honorine Ward, M.D. is a professor in the Departments of Medicine, a member of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, a faculty of the Department Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and of the Immunology Graduate Program at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

She directs an NIH-funded research program on the AIDS-associated opportunistic parasite Cryptosporidium. Her research is focused on molecular epidemiology of and immune response to cryptosporidiosis in India and Bangladesh where this parasite is a major cause of diarrhea in malnourished children and HIV-infected individuals, and the role of Toll-like receptor-mediated signaling in the innate immune responses to C. parvum in vitro and in murine models. She is the program director of an NIH training grant on the pathogenesis of HIV and associated opportunistic infections. She has served on several NIH study sections and is currently a member of the AIDS associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer study section.