James Curran
James W. Curran Dean of Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Co-Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research, Emory University (Festival Underwriter)
James Curran is the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. He co-directs the Emory Center for AIDS Research and holds faculty appointments in epidemiology and the medicine and nursing schools. Curran joined Emory in 1995 following almost 25 years of leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led an early task force to determine the cause of AIDS. An author of more than 260 scholarly publications, he’s an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and Fellow of the American Epidemiologic Society, American College of Preventive Medicine, and Infectious Diseases Society of America
Highlights
Big IdeaWe’re not talking about something that’s going to be over with. If we’re successful, we’ll still have 30 or 40 million people in therapy for 30 or 40 years.James Curran
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