Victor G. Davila-Roman, MD, is a cardiologist and a professor of medicine, and vice chair for Global Health and co-director of the Center for Global Health in the Department of Medicine. He is also a co-director of the School of Public Health’s Global Health Futures Innovation Research Network. He uses implementation science frameworks to improve health systems and heart health, with a focus on hypertension, heart failure and how conditions such as diabetes, obesity, pregnancy and HIV infection affect heart health. He has major research projects in seven African countries, Peru and the U.S.