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James W. Curran, MD, MPH (Chair)

James W. Curran, MD, MPHJames Curran is Dean and Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He is an internationally recognized authority on HIV/AIDS prevention. He has served as assistant surgeon general in the U.S. Public Health Service and director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While at the CDC, Dean Curran directed the CDC Task Force that conducted the initial investigations on HIV/AIDS and held numerous leadership positions at the CDC before joining Emory in 1995. He currently is the principal investigator of Emory’s National Institutes of Health-funded Center for AIDS Research.

In 1993, Dean Curran was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science. More recently, he was named the 2003 winner of the John Snow Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. He is the author of more than 250 scientific publications and has served on numerous local and national non-profit boards including the Associations of Schools of Public Health and the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice of the IOM. He is a fellow of the American Epidemiologic Society, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Award in Health from the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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