William A. Petri is a physician-scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Epidemiology.
He completed his residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University, followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at UVA.
[3] He leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s PROVIDE study in Bangladesh and India exploring new solutions for the problem of oral poliovirus and rotavirus vaccine failures in the developing world.
[4] He was a member of the NIAID Blue Ribbon Panel on Bioterrorism and its Implications for Biomedical Research in 2002.
His research has been heavily funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
[8] In 2022, he received the Walter Reed Medal from The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.