Education
Jimma Institute of Health Sciences, Jimma, Ethiopia – MD
St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, New York – Residency in Internal Medicine
Tulane University – Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Tulane University – Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Dr. Dawd Siraj is a professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the Director of the UW Health Travel Clinic and Director of the Global Health Pathway in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He was the inaugural vice chair for DEI in the Department of Medicine, serving from 2021-2022. He has also served as a member of the inaugural DEI task force for Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is the co-chair of the Centennial Scholarship Advisory Committee at UW SMPH.
Dr. Siraj completed his fellowship training in Infectious Diseases as well as a master’s in public health and Tropical Medicine in 2002 at Tulane University of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Siraj leads a global health partnership between the University of Wisconsin and Jimma University in Jimma, Ethiopia and King Fisal University in Kigali, Rwanda. Dr. Siraj runs an HIV Inmate Clinic and provides clinical training for Infectious Diseases fellows to deliver specialized continuity care for long-term HIV patients. For over five years, he has been a mentor of medical students from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds within the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has served as a vice chair for IDSA Global Health committee (2021-2023), and he is currently a member of the Infectious Diseases in-training exam writing committee, International Society of Travel Medicine Research and education committees.
He is the recipient of the Centennial Scholar award from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.