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A Foundation for the future of ID

The IDSA Foundation was established in 2002 with a clear mission: to support, magnify and fund the work of IDSA and its global community of members. The Foundation follows the Society’s strategic priorities, with a key focus on advancing inclusion, diversity, access and equity across all programs and initiatives — ensuring the field represents and responds to the diverse communities it serves.

What We Do

Together, we’re solving the challenges of infectious diseases

  • We’re protecting the health of humankind by growing a strong, diverse and valued workforce.

  • We’re preventing the spread of misinformation by advancing trusted scientific knowledge.

  • We’re preparing for future health crises by supporting research and reform.

Support Our Work

Who We Support

Help fund solutions

From global inequity to global pandemics, and from HIV to antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases are one of the greatest challenges facing our future. As a partner, you can invest in the solutions by providing programs, funding and grants to students and ID specialists.

ID Mentorship

Providing mentorship to the next generation of ID specialists
ID Mentorship

ID STEP Program

Increasing the recruitment and retention of ID medical school students
ID STEP Program

HIV Clinical Fellowship

Solving the shortages in HIV care
HIV Clinical Fellowship
Our People

Board of Directors

  • Ronald G. Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA

    Ronald G. Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA

    Chair, IDSA Foundation

    Ronald G. Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA, is the director of medical research for ID Care, the largest health care organization providing infectious diseases specialty services in New Jersey, with 100 clinicians practicing across more than 130 sites. Dr. Nahass has served IDSA as chair of the Quality Committee and served as a member of several other groups, including the Clinical Affairs Committee, the Value and Governance Task Force and the IDSA/American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Hepatitis C Guidelines Committee. He was awarded the Distinguished Physician Humanitarian Award in 2008 by the Princeton HealthCare System for his work with patients with HIV/AIDS and received IDSA’s Watanakunakorn Clinician Award in 2020.

  • Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA

    Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA

    Vice Chair, IDSA Foundation

    Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA, is an active clinician providing inpatient general and transplant ID care and outpatient HIV care. She has been part of the vibrant community of infectious diseases/HIV physicians for more than 25 years. Dr. Armstrong is head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is a passionate advocate for addressing the ID/HIV workforce, including clinicians, educators, physician-scientists and public health experts.

  • Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA

    Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA

    Secretary and Treasurer, IDSA Foundation

    Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the chief of infectious diseases at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He served as program director for the ID fellowship at the University of Illinois for over 10 years.

  • Rana Chakraborty, MD, DPhil, FIDSA

    Rana Chakraborty, MD, DPhil, FIDSA

    Director, IDSA Foundation

    Rana Chakraborty, MD, DPhil, FIDSA, is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and researcher with unique expertise in placental and fetal immunology. He studies the impact of maternal infection on exposed infants and characterizes and publishes about infection of trophoblasts, cord blood and placental macrophages with HIV, cytomegalovirus, Toxoplasma gondii, the Zika virus and SARS-CoV-2.

  • Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, FIDSA, FACP

    Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, FIDSA, FACP

    Director, IDSA Foundation

    Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, FIDSA, FACP, is a Caribbean native born on the island of Dominica. She is an associate professor of medicine/infectious diseases, co-director of digital innovation & social media strategy for the Division of Infectious Diseases, vice chair of belonging and community engagement in the Department of Internal Medicine and associate medical director of antimicrobial stewardship at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Marcelin earned her medical degree from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine and infectious diseases training at the Mayo Clinic before joining the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNMC in 2017.