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Appendix G: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 318-326

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... Dr. Curran directed the CDC Task Force that conducted the initial investigations of AIDS and held various AIDS leadership positions at CDC until joining Emory University.
From page 319...
... He is the Program Director of a Fogarty International Center funded capacity building program in International Research Ethics in Southern Africa (2003­2006) , Chairman of the South African Interim National Health Research Ethics Committee, and immediate past president of the International Association of Bioethics.
From page 320...
... Gilbert Kombe, MBBS, MPH, serves as HIV/AIDS senior technical advisor at Partnership for Health Reformplus Project at Abt Associates Inc. In this capacity, he directs technical assistance and provides leadership to regional and country teams in determining achievable and sustainable strategies to strengthen health systems' capacity to provide effective HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care interventions.
From page 321...
... He has provided technical and management expertise to a number of developing countries including his own Uganda Ministry of Health where he is the AIDS Task Force Chairman, responsible for planning and execution of the for national scaling up of ART program. Nicky Padayachee, MD, has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Cape Town since January 1999.
From page 322...
... He is Director of the Center for AIDS Research and holds the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research. He trained in infectious diseases and medical virology with research on influenza virus, herpes viruses, and hemorrhagic fever viruses before focusing on HIV in the 1980s.
From page 323...
... His basic science research focuses on cellular immune responses to chronic viral infections, particularly HIV and hepatitis C virus. His laboratory has been instrumental in defining the evolution of immune responses in the critical early stages of infection and has shown that immediate treatment of acute HIV infection with potent combination antiviral therapy can enhance functional immune responses to the virus and allow for transient immune control of HIV.
From page 324...
... Ms. Knobler has conducted research and published articles and edited volumes on biological and nuclear weapons control, foreign aid, health policy in developing countries, poverty and public assistance, human rights, and the Arab-Israeli peace process.
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... She earned her BS in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Following the National Academies internship, she will begin a 3-year infectious diseases fellowship program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.


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