Anne Goldfeld is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, where she leads a research laboratory. She is also Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and is a physician in the Infectious Disease Division at Brigham and Women’s HospitalMass General Brigham, in Boston, Massachusetts. Anne’s basic scientific studies in her lab on molecular immunology and innate immunity have led to new understandings of how genes are regulated, while her tuberculosis and AIDS basic and clinical research have elucidated fundamental knowledge of how the immune system responds to these pathogens, resulting in new approaches to treatment and improved survival.

In tandem, Anne has worked in multiple refugee relief disasters across the globe and has been at the forefront of advocating for access to medical care as a human right. In 1988, Anne and colleagues furnished medical literature with some of the earliest evidence of gender-based violence against women in situations of torture and war.  Serving as the Medical Coordinator for the American Refugee Committee on the Thai-Cambodian border at Site II in 1989 she came face-to-face with the human impact of landmines, leading her to start one of the first landmine prevention programs in a war zone. Documenting the humanitarian toll of landmines she made a first call for an international ban against landmines with the Women’s Refugee Commission in December 1990 and then in congressional testimony in April 1991. She served as an Advisor to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in its early years, and in 1994 co-founded the US Campaign to Ban Landmines with Holly Myers and the Women’s Refugee Commission. To provide care for tuberculosis and later HIV/AIDS, she co-founded the Cambodian Health Committee in 1994 with Sok Thim and Brian Heidel and the Global Health Committee in 2008. Anne was one of the three PIs of the French ANRS and US NIH co-sponsored CAMELIA randomized clinical trial in Cambodia with F. Xavier Blanc and Sok Thim.

In recognition of her work, Anne was awarded the Cambodian Prime Minister’s Medal of Honor for Reconstruction of Cambodia and recognized as a Hero of Global Health by Time Magazine, both with Sok Thim. She received the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University, the Eliasson Global Leadership Prize from the Tällberg Foundation, and the Dominick Purpura Distinguished Alumna Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was featured as a Visionary in the National Public Radio’s Visionary Series and as a City Light in the Boston Globe. In addition to Anne’s peer-reviewed scientific publications, her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and the Nation, and she co-authored the book Beyond Hiroshima with Jean Fallon M.M. Her work to end TB and HIV has been featured in Time Magazine and in exhibits of James Nachtwey’s photography at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the US Capitol, and with a written installation piece she created, at Le Laboratoire in Paris, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and the Gates Grand Challenges Meeting in Bangkok.