Key Qualifications

Dr. Alan Greenberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Services. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the "Academic-Public Health Partnership" between GW and the District of Columbia Department of Health. The partnership focuses on core HIV/AIDS surveillance activities, the CDC-funded National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, and monitoring and evaluating DC's HIV testing campaign. Dr. Greenberg is a co-founder and co-director of the GW HIV/AIDS Institute, dedicated to linking and expanding the University's HIV-related research and educational activities in basic science, prevention, epidemiology, clinical care, education and health policy. Additionally, he was the co-principal investigator in 2007 of a World Health Organization sponsored project that developed a legal and policy framework to support “task-shifting” among health care workers to scale up HIV prevention, care and treatment services in the developing world. Dr. Greenberg is the principal investigator of the GW-Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Partnership for Pediatric AIDS, and serves as the senior technical advisor to the foundation's president and CEO. Dr. Greenberg is the principal investigator of GW's collaboration with the Association of Public Health Laboratories that has developed the International Institute for Public Health Laboratory Management.

Previously, Dr. Greenberg served as chief of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he directed domestic and international epidemiology research studies in 28 U.S. states and nine countries. Dr. Greenberg also established and directed research sections on: HIV Vaccines; Mother-to-Child Transmission and Pediatric and Adolescent Studies; Sexual Transmission and Injection Drug Use; Clinical Epidemiology; the Minority AIDS Research Initiative; and Administrative, Statistical, Informatics and International Laboratory Support Units.

Education
Dr. Greenberg holds degrees from Amherst College (BS), The George Washington University (MD) and Harvard (MPH). He was a tenured member of the Research Officers Group of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Relevant Experience in Africa

Dr. Greenberg spent four years in theCote d'Ivoire, where he directed the CDC's research, training and clinical services in West Africa from 1993-1997. He also worked regularly in the Congo from 1985-1988, and over HIV/AIDS research activities in Kenya, Botswana and Cameroon from 2000-2005.

Languages: French

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