91ÅÝܽ

by Sharon Mah

91ÅÝܽ’s (SFU) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is pleased to announce that internationally recognized health scholar and researcher Dr. David Bangsberg will begin his five-year tenure as dean, starting on October 15, 2025.

Bangsberg is an accomplished academic leader with extensive experience in building medical training programs, and creating partnerships. As Director at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Centre for Global Health, he oversaw its transformation from a single-program to a multi-institution (Harvard, MIT, Mbarara University of Science and Technology) global health initiative that now includes programs in cancer care, obstetrics/gynecology, medical technology innovation, radiology, pathology, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and community health.

Bangsberg left MGH to become the Founding Dean of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) - Portland State University (PSU) School of Public Health. He deftly navigated the amalgamation of two institutions to create a school that built essential public health capacity for the state of Oregon to respond to the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Following his tenure in Oregon, Bangsberg accepted concurrent roles at VinUniversity, serving as provost for the broader institution while also leading the College of Health Sciences as dean. He has focused on building the College’s clinical, educational and research capacity, overseeing undergraduate and graduate studies programs in medicine and nursing, as well as developing a multidisciplinary research program.

In addition to being a skilled leader, Bangsberg is also a renowned scholar in HIV/AIDS research, with more than 500 publications to his credit. During his time as an academic at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) he became the leading expert in HIV and homelessness in the American context, before expanding his focus to include antiretroviral adherence, resistance, access to care, and treatment outcomes in impoverished populations in rural sub-Saharan Africa and India as well as the United States. When he moved on to MGH Centre for Global Health, he received academic appointments to Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where he continued to focus on investigating approaches to dismantling areas of health inequities in marginalized populations both locally and globally in rural sub-Saharan Africa and India. During his time at Harvard Medical School, he received the Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, which is conferred on five of 12,000 faculty members each year.

SFU FHS looks forward to continuing its success in training the next generation of public health providers and supporting research innovation and excellence under Bangsberg’s leadership.

SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences would like to extend special thanks to Professor Jeremy Snyder who generously led FHS as Dean pro tem from 2024 – present.