Gregory Pappas MD PhD has a leadership role in establishment of the Biologicals Evaluation and Safety System (BEST) through innovative partnerships, a real-world evidence approaches to generation of evidence, including the including of national specialty society registries. Before coming to FDA Dr Pappas directed the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Administration for the District of Columbia, Department of Health. He has worked in over 30 countries with WHO, USAID, and CDC. He served a Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Health Sciences Aga Khan University. He was an author of the PEPFAR Five Year Plan. He served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health/Surgeon General, David Satcher. He directed the Office of International and Refugee Health, HHS, serving on the Executive Board of UNICEF and PAHO, and as a delegate to the World Health Assembly. Dr. Pappas received his MD and PhD (Anthropology) from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. He is author of numerous articles, including his work in the NEJM “The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States “and his book with Cornell University Press, “The Magic City: unemployment in a working class community.” He has served on the faculty of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the GW School of Public Health, and Howard Medical School. Dr. Pappas was a member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. His Megacities and Global Health (APHA Press 2012) with Omar Khan.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
1:34 PM – 1:42 PM CT