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Dr. Michael Cappello is a professor of pediatrics, microbial pathogenesis, and epidemiology and public health at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Cappello has developed a laboratory and field-based research program focused on the study of hookworms, the blood-feeding intestinal parasites that infect nearly one billion people in developing countries worldwide. In 2006, he was named a global health ambassador by the Paul G. Rogers Society of Research!America, the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority. Dr. Cappello received the 2007 Bailey K. Ashford medal, awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ‘for distinguished work in tropical medicine.'

In addition to his research, Dr. Cappello also provides clinical care as an infectious diseases specialist at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and serves as co-director of the Yale International Adoption Clinic. In 2002, he founded the Yale Program in International Child Health, which coordinates and develops global initiatives in pediatric research, clinical care and medical education. In 2007, the Program established a bi-directional training program with the University of Ghana, aimed at building African research capacity in global infectious diseases. Also in 2007, Yale President Richard Levin appointed Dr. Cappello to be director of the Yale World Fellows Program, a University-based initiative that provides academic enrichment and professional development to emerging leaders across multiple disciplines, with a goal of building a network of individuals dedicated to effecting positive global change.

He graduated from Brown University in 1984 with a degree in biomedical ethics and received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1988. After residency and fellowship training, he joined the Yale faculty in 1996.