ERIC GOOSBY

Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis. In 2009, Ambassador Goosby was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the Ambassador-at-Large and United States Global AIDS Coordinator, where he led all U.S. Government international HIV/AIDS efforts from 2009-2013. In this role, Ambassador Goosby oversaw implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest public health program responding to a single disease in history, and served as the U.S. Board Member to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Under his tenure the program expanded treatment to 6.7 million people – a more than four-fold increase since the beginning of the Obama Administration, cared for more than 5 million orphans and vulnerable children, strengthened combination prevention approaches to include prevention-of-mother-to child transmission, male circumcision and widely expanded counseling and testing services in the most heavily impacted countries in the world. In December 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asked Ambassador Goosby to serve as the founding Director of the Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State in addition to being the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. The office guides diplomatic efforts to advance the United States' global health agenda to improve and save lives and foster sustainability in partner countries. Prior to returning to the U.S. Government in 2009, Ambassador Goosby served as the founding CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation from 2001 to June 2009 while also maintaining a faculty appointment as a Professor of Medicine. During these years, he played a key role in the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS national treatment scale-up plans in many resource poor countries including South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Cote D’Ivoire, China, and the Ukraine. Ambassador Goosby has over 30 years of experience with HIV/AIDS, ranging from his early years treating patients at San Francisco General Hospital when AIDS first emerged to clinical research on the diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections and the development of antiretroviral agents. Following his work at SFGH, as the Associate Medical Director (1984-1991), he became the first Director of the Ryan White Care Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1991-1995) during the Clinton Administration. In this role, Ambassador Goosby led the development of HIV/AIDS delivery systems in the United States and conceived of and founded the Department of Health and Human Services’ Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy in 1996. This remains the leading resource for clinicians to obtain guidance on the appropriate use of antiretroviral therapy globally. Ambassador Goosby also served as Deputy Director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office and Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1995-2000). Ambassador Goosby has longstanding working relationships with leading multilateral organizations, including UNAIDS, the Global Fund and the World Health Organization. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, op-eds, book chapters and books.