Lisa V. Adams, MD, is an associate professor of medicine and also director of the Center for Health Equity at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. She teaches courses on global health and her research interests are international TB care and prevention, TB/HIV, and pediatric TB. She is a 2016 OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow and co-author of the 2015 book “Diseases of Poverty: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Modern Plagues.”