Kelly Gebo

Kelly Gebo began her tenure as dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (GW) in October 2025. She comes to GW from Johns Hopkins University, where she spent more than two decades in leadership and faculty roles across the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

An infectious disease physician-scientist, educator, and accomplished academic leader, Gebo’s work focuses on health equity, access to care, and outcomes for people affected by infectious diseases such as HIV, COVID-19, and mpox. Throughout her career, she has been deeply committed to teaching and mentoring students, trainees, and early-career faculty, helping to shape the next generation of clinicians and public health professionals. From 2018 to 2020, she served as chief medical and scientific officer for the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, helping to design one of the largest and most inclusive biomedical research initiatives in the country. 

Gebo is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the HIV Medical Association, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Her dedication to mentorship has been recognized with the David M. Levine Award for Excellence in Mentoring at Johns Hopkins. 

Gebo earned her BA in biology, as well as her MD and master of public health in epidemiology, from Johns Hopkins University, where she also completed her internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.