 Dr
Gregory Pappas
Professor and Chairman
Gregory Pappas MD,
PhD recently joined Aga Khan University (AKU) as
Chairman of the Department of Community Health Sciences
(CHS). He has published extensively
in international peer reviewed journals on the health
of the people of Pakistan and on work in other less
developed countries. While at AKU he has provided
university wide leadership for research, training,
and service. He also serves as an advisor to the Government
of Pakistan on a number of health policy and development
areas.
Previously he served
as Medical Director of the Futures Group, designing and
implementing the monitoring and evaluation plan for the
antiretroviral programme of AIDS Relief, working in nine
countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Dr Pappas has assisted in the development of
the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
including writing for the five year strategy, a report
to Congress. Dr Pappas served in a variety of positions
over an 18 year period in the Department of Health and
Human Services including his role as Senior Policy Advisor
to the Assistant Secretary for Health/Surgeon General,
David Satcher. For the Surgeon General, Dr Pappas worked
in a number of areas including disparities in health
and global health (HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases,
and health information systems development). Dr Pappas
also directed the Office of International and Refugee
Health, Department of Health and Human Services, serving
on the Executive Board of UNICEF and PAHO, and as a delegate
to the World Health Assembly. As Deputy Director of the
Demographic and Health he implemented innovative surveys
in Uganda, Mali, Uzbekistan, and Dominican Republic. Dr Pappas has extensive experience working in Pakistan
where he produced a national health survey based on examination
of 18,000 persons with the Pakistani Medical Research
Council. Dr Pappas received his MD and PhD (Anthropology)
from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. After
doing his clinical training, he came to Washington DC, first in a fellowship in Epidemiology, then continuing
as a scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics/CDC.
Dr Pappas is author of numerous articles, including his
work in the New England Journal of Medicine "The
increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic
groups in the United States " and his book with
Cornell, The Magic City: unemployment in a working class
community. Dr Pappas is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health in the Department
of Health Policy and Management, and was recently appointed
to the faculty of Howard Medical School. Dr Pappas served
as Chair of the Science Board and member of the Executive
Board of the American Public Health Association. Click
here for Dr Gregory Pappas's CV
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