HAVERKOS, HARRY
JAFFE, HAROLD
Dr. Harold Jaffe is interviewed as part of the AIDS Early History at CDC project. Dr. Jaffe has had a leadership role from many different aspects of the disease for his entire career. This interview on the early years of AIDS at CDC though will focus on the first several years beginning in June 1981 with the publication of the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual men.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
November 12, 2015
2016.500.1
JURANEK, DENNIS
KAPLAN, JONATHAN
KENNEDY, SUSAN
KOPLAN, JEFFREY
Dr. Jeffrey Koplan served as the Director of the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion from 1989 to 1994, and then as the Director of CDC from 1998 to 2002. This interview focuses on the early years of the AIDS epidemic, beginning in June 1981 with the publication of the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR] on the five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual men. Dr. Koplan served in several critical roles during those early years, first as chair of the Public Health Service AIDS Task Force convened by the Assistant Secretary for Health, [Dr. Edward N.] Ed Brandt, in 1983, and then as chair of several pivotal meetings regarding the transmission of AIDS through blood and blood products.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
January 29, 2016
2016.500.3
LAWRENCE, DALE
MARSTON, BARBARA
MASON, JAMES