Dr. Thomas Kenyon, Principal Deputy Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

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Dr. Thomas Kenyon serves as the Principal Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), which leads coordination of PEPFAR. Dr. Kenyon's field experience includes 17 years as a clinician, researcher, and program director in Grenada, Swaziland, Botswana, and Namibia. Prior to coming to the Coordinator's Office, Dr. Kenyon worked in Namibia as the first Country Director for the Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/CDC), where he was instrumental in the rapid expansion of national HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs. From 1994 to 2000, as an epidemiologist with the Division of TB Elimination and Director of the "BOTUSA Project" in Botswana, Dr. Kenyon led HHS/CDC research on the TB and HIV co-epidemics in Africa, including the epidemiology of TB and HIV transmission, isoniazid preventive therapy, TB/HIV mortality, TB in children, surveillance for TB/HIV and MDR-TB, and TB diagnosis in HIV-infected adults and children. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Kenyon became heavily engaged with civil society and the Governments of Botswana and Namibia to establish behavior change programs for HIV prevention, national programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, voluntary counseling and testing, and the introduction of a public health approach to comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral therapy for adults and children.

Dr. Kenyon received his B.S. (1977) from Indiana University and his M.D. (1981) from the University of Missouri - Columbia. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson (1984), an M.P.H. (1993) in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and field epidemiology training through the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS '94), Division of TB Elimination, HHS/CDC. Dr. Kenyon has numerous publications in scientific journals and currently serves as the co-chair with UNAIDS of the Task Force on Human Capacity Development and Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Services Towards Universal Access, Global Health Workforce Alliance.

March 10, 2008