Biography

Charlotte Hobbs, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, earned her medical degree from the University of Miami in Miami, FL. Dr. Hobbs completed her pediatric internship at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, LA and her pediatric residency at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She completed her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at New York University in New York, NY. Dr Hobbs spent five years at NIAH/NIAID working in the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, examining the impact of HIV medications on malaria infection, immunity, and transmission and has led clinical studies in various malaria-endemic regions of sub-Saharan Africa. After moving from NIH to Mississippi, she has spent the last eight years working on surveillance studies looking at prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in children throughout the state of Mississippi. She also worked during the COVID pandemic with CDC in characterizing and establishing SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology and severe manifestations in children in Mississippi. Her most recent work is in the field of the impending public health emergency of congenital syphilis, and she is at UAB now, having been recruited to co-lead the Congenital and Perinatal Infections consortium with Drs. David Kimberlin and Richard Whitley.

She is currently also completing her doctorate in public health (DrPH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases) in London, England. Her clinical/research interests continue to include diseases that impact children from low-resource settings, both in the United States and globally, as well as investigation of simple measures that are meaningfully impactful in the health of all children.