Dr. Wilson is the director of the Sparkman Center for Global Health (SCGH). He has extensive experience and expertise in global health and now works most extensively in Zambia.  He  currently is working with the University of Zambia School of Medicine (UNZA SOM) on capacity building for health care worker training at all levels and disciplines. He is the Co-Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative with UNZA SOM, a PEPFAR supported initiative for sustainably training health care workers in Africa. He is also closely involved with the UNZA SOM-led Zambia Education Partnership for Advanced Care and Training (ZEPACT) where he is focused on the continued development of the HIV Nurse Prescriber program initiated through SCGH support as well an HIV drug resistance monitoring project. His primary goal with the SCGH at UAB is to work with other departments and units to recruit additional international health faculty to the School and to UAB and to support global citizenship projects on the UAB campus. He is also involved in the development and dissemination of the health education resource intranet platform called eGranary in collaboration with the University of North Carolina.