Seth Berkley is President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. Prior to founding the Initiative, Berkley was associate director of the health-sciences division of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is also an adjunct professor of public health at Columbia University and an adjunct professor of medicine at Brown University. He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Carter Center, for which he took an assignment as epidemiologist at the Uganda Ministry of Health. He sits on a number of international steering committees, as well as corporate and nonprofit 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 and speaks frequently on health-technology development, AIDS and international health. Berkley received his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.

Panel:
Global Health: In an Interconnected World, Failure Is Not an Option

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