Dr. Eric D. McCollum, MD, MPH is the director of the Johns Hopkins Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, an Associate Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology in the Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health. He has nearly 20 years of clinical and research experience in child respiratory diseases specific to low-and middle-income countries in southern Africa and South Asia, has authored >140 peer-reviewed publications, and advises the World Health Organization in multiple capacities in the area of pediatric respiratory diseases.