DOWDLE, WALTER

Video

Date

January 14, 2016

Description

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.

Source

Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller