DOWDLE, WALTER
Dr. Dowdle served as Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases from 1980 to 1986; Coordinator for AIDS Activities for the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., in 1986; Deputy Director of CDC for AIDS between 1986-87; and Acting Director of CDC in 1989. This interview focuses on CDC's involvement in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, beginning in June 1981 with the publication of the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR] on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual men.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
January 14, 2016
2016.500.6
DROTMAN, PETER
EVATT, BRUCE
Dr. Bruce Evatt is a national and global leader in hematology, with emphasis on laboratory research and program implementation. He served in several critical roles at CDC during these early years of the AIDS epidemic, including Director of the Hematology Division, 1978 to 1982; Director of the Division of Immunologic, Oncologic and Hematologic Diseases, 1982 to 1991; and Assistant Director for Hemophilia Activities, Division of HIV/AIDS, 1991 to 2004.
David J. Sencer CDC Museum
May 10, 2016
FEORINO, PAUL
FOEGE, WILLIAM H.
Bill Foege played a lead role in the global smallpox eradication campaign conducted during the late 1960s and 1970s, which led to the global eradication of smallpox in 1980. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was Director of CDC during both the Carter administration and into the first part of the Reagan administration, when AIDS emerged. And in the late 1990s and 2000s he worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its global health mission, which has transformed the global fight against many diseases of poverty. In recognition of his achievements in international public health, President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
August 26, 2016
FRANCIS, DON
GAYLE, HELENE
GREENBERG, ALAN
GUINAN, MARY
Mary worked in a variety of roles at CDC. She began her CDC career as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, or EIS officer, from 1974 to '76. Ten years later, she was appointed CDC's Associate Director for Science and served in that capacity for four years, from 1986 to 1990. Much of her early career at CDC was focused on sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] and AIDS.
Interviewed by Dr. Mary Chamberland
May 3, 2016
2016.500.4