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For immediate release
February 20, 2009 |
Washington, D.C. – Today, Georgetown University announced that former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Ambassador Mark Dybul, has joined the faculty as distinguished scholar and co-director at Georgetown’s O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and senior advisor to the president.
Dybul will teach, conduct research and write on a full range of global health initiatives at the O’Neill Institute, in addition to coordinating seminars, conferences and lectures for the broader university community in the areas of global health, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.
“We are very pleased to welcome Mark Dybul to the Georgetown community and know he will offer a depth of knowledge and expertise in global health to engage these issues even more deeply,” said Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. “We look forward to his contribution in facilitating conversations about the most pressing health concerns facing the nation and the world today.”
"I am very excited to be a part of the Georgetown community and look forward to contributing to the university's growing work on global health and international development issues,” said Dybul.
In his role as the U.S. global AIDS coordinator, Dybul led the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). As PEPFAR coordinator, Dybul oversaw all U.S. government engagement in the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and served as chair of the Global Fund Finance and Audit Committee.
He also served as vice-chair and later chair of the joint United Nations program on the HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) program coordinating board and served as a Bush-appointed member of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Before working in the coordinator's office, Dybul served on the planning task force for PEPFAR, and led President Bush's International Prevention of Mother and Child HIV initiative at the Department of Health and Human Services. At HHS, he also served as the assistant director for medical affairs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health.
Dybul holds the rank of assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the uniformed service of HHS. He is also a former member of the World Health Organization's writing committee to develop global HIV therapy guidelines.
The Georgetown alumnus received his A.B. in 1985 and M.D. in 1992 from the university before completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1995 and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1998. In 2008, Dybul received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Georgetown in recognition of his untiring dedication to discovering a cure for HIV.
About the O'Neill Institute
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University is the premier center for health law, scholarship and policy. Housed at Georgetown University Law Center, in the heart of the nation’s capital, the institute has a mission to provide innovative solutions for the leading health problems in America and globally – from infectious and chronic diseases to health care financing and health systems. The institute, a joint project of the Law Center and School of Nursing and Health Studies, also draws upon the university’s considerable intellectual resources, including the Medical Center, the Public Policy Institute and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. For more information about the O’Neill Institute, visit http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/index.html.
About Georgetown University
Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. Georgetown, today, is a major student-centered, international, research university offering respected undergraduate, graduate and professional programs on its three campuses in Washington. For more information about Georgetown University, visit www.georgetown.edu.
