Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mail Stop E07
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30333
jmermin@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Jonathan Mermin is the Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From 2009 to 2013, he was Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) at CDC, leading the agencies domestic HIV prevention activities. He also served as the Director of CDC-Kenya for 3 years and the Director of CDC-Uganda for 7 years, where he oversaw the collaborative initiation, expansion and evaluation of infectious disease activities, including HIV prevention and care programs, studies of behavioral prevention, prevention of opportunistic infections, economic and policy analyses, and formative and operational studies evaluating the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy.
Mermin worked in the California Department of Health Services, and was an internal medicine resident at San Francisco General Hospital, and a preventive medicine resident at CDC. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford University School of Medicine, and received his MPH from Emory University.