Mark Dybul is a distinguished scholar and co-director at Georgetown's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Dybul served as the U.S. global AIDS coordinator, leading the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In this role, he oversaw all U.S. government engagement in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and served as chair of the group's finance and audit committee.

Dybul also served as vice-chair and later chair of the Joint United Nations Programme on the HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) coordinating board and served as a President Bush-appointed member of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Before working in the coordinator's office, Dybul served on the planning task force for PEPFAR and led President Bush's International Prevention of Mother and Child HIV initiative at the Department of Health and Human Services HHS). At HHS, he also served as the assistant director for medical affairs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health.

Dybul studied philosophy at Georgetown and received his bachelor's degree in 1985. He went on to receive his medical degree in 1992 from the university before completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1995 and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1998. In 2008, Dybul received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Georgetown in recognition of his untiring dedication to discovering a cure for HIV.

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