Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
ID Fellowship Program Director, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center
Carlos Franco-Paredes, M.D., directs the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he also is an associate professor. He has been a medical expert in several Covid-19-related lawsuits to improve conditions in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers in the U.S., including ones brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, Civil Rights Corp; and inspected correctional facilities across the United States in collaboration with civil rights and immigration attorneys and advocacy groups. As an activist working with Colorado re-entry organizations, he promotes health care and health-care equity for formerly incarcerated individuals. A former consultant to the World Health Organization, Franco-Paredes helped develop influenza pandemic preparedness guidelines from 2006 to 2010. The most recent of his 225 published, research articles on infectious diseases, pandemics have been on the impact of Covid-19 on minorities, persons in correctional facilities and persons in immigration detention centers. Franco-Paredes has been providing direct care to patients with Covid-19 in the medical wards and intensive care units at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Center. He earned a Master of Public Health degree in global health from the Rollins School of Public Health and completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, GA
