Dr. Robert Rolfe is a clinical associate in the Infectious Diseases division at Duke University. He completed his internal medicine training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his infectious diseases and medical microbiology fellowships at Duke University. While in his infectious diseases fellowship, he also completed the Duke Global Health Fellowship Pathway.

During residency, he obtained his Diploma of Clinical Tropical Medicine after completing the Gorgas course in clinical tropical medicine in Lima, Peru. He successfully sat for the CTropMed examination- a certificate of knowledge in clinical tropical medicine through the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He currently runs the Duke Travel Clinic and through this is a member of the Global TravEpiNet.

He is interested in diagnostics that can be used in low resource settings to better characterize zoonotic infectious diseases. He works with the Duke- KCMC collaboration on patients with febrile illnesses in Moshi, Tanzania.