William H. Foege Chair and Professor
University of Washington
Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Center for AIDS and STD, Departments of Global Health and Medicine
Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Ave. Box 359931, Seattle, WA 98104
Seattle,
WA
USA
98104
kkh@u.washington.edu
Biographical Sketch:
He is the first William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at the University of Washington. He also heads the Infectious Diseases Section at Harborview Medical Center, and founded and directs the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD, a WHO Collaborating Center for AIDS and STD. He is the Principal Investigator for the International Training and Education Center on Health (I-TECH), a Collaboration between UW and University of California, San Francisco–one of the largest HIV/AIDS training programs in the world. He chairs the STI Working Group for the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network and has participated in research on STIs for more than 40 years in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Western Pacific. He has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and edited 30 books, monographs, and journal supplements. He has trained and/or mentored more than 100 scientists involved in HIV/STI research and care.