Department of Epidemiology Seth F. Berkley M.D. Professor sberkley@iavi.org IAVI 110 William St., NY, NY Telephone: 847-1100 Fax: 847-1112 Research interests Background: Seth F. Berkley is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. Dr. Berkley is the President and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a global organization working to speed the search for vaccines to prevent AIDS and see that they will be rapidly available to all who need them. IAVI's focus is the developing world, where the epidemic has taken a disproportionate toll. IAVI works as a social venture capital firm, investing in promising AIDS vaccine research and fast-tracking these vaccines through product development and human testing. Already nine-IAVI sponsored AIDS vaccines are in development, including two vaccines in human trials in Oxford and Nairobi, the first preventive AIDS vaccines ever designed specifically for Africa. (More information is available at www.iavi.org.) Prior to founding IAVI, Dr. Berkley was the Associate Director of the Health Sciences Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Berkley is also an adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Columbia University and of Medicine at Brown University. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University. He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the US. Centers for Disease Control, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and for the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. He sits on a number of international steering committees and boards and has consulted or worked in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The author of more than 85 publications, he has written extensively on infectious disease, as well as participating as a core team member in writing the World Bank's 1993 World Development Report on Health. IAVI and Dr. Berkley were featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine, in its special issue on the 20th anniversary of AIDS.