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
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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
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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
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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
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ROGERS, MARTHA
Dr. Martha Rogers talks about her role at CDC in the early years of AIDS and CDC's response to a historic epidemic. Some of her early work involved interviewing patients for the case control study the standard manner in which CDC investigates outbreaks.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
November 2, 2015
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SPIRA, THOMAS
Dr. Thomas Spira talks about his role at CDC in the early years of AIDS and CDC's response to a historic epidemic. Dr. Spira worked in the Bureau of Labs and volunteered for the Task Force that was forming at that time around this epidemic.
Interviewed by Bess Miller
November 6, 2015
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MCCRAY, EUGENE
Dr. Eugene McCray has had a leadership role for many different aspects of AIDS throughout his career. This oral history of AIDS at CDC focuses on the early years, which began in June 1981 with the publication of the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual men.
Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller
June 24, 2016
CASTRO, KENNETH
Dr. Ken Castro began his career at CDC as an EIS [Epidemic Intelligence Service] officer assigned to the AIDS Program in July of 1983, just two years after the initial MMWR [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report] report of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in homosexual men in June of 1981. Much of his early work in the AIDS Program related to various aspects of AIDS surveillance and HIV [human immunodeficiency virus] transmission. Subsequently he assumed a series of senior leadership positions at CDC in the areas of HIV and tuberculosis.
David J. Sencer CDC Museum
David J. Sencer CDC Museum
August 3, 2016
August 3, 2016
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