On Monday April 27, 2009, President Obama named Eric Goosby, MD as the new global AIDS coordinator and administrator for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Dr Gossby is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California San Francisco and the current chief medical officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, a non-profit consulting organization which works to address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. He previously served as deputy director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office and as director of HHS’ Office of HIV/AIDS Policy during the Clinton administration when he managed a $2.5 billion HIV/AIDS care and prevention budget.
Dr. Goosby began his career treating patients at San Francisco GeneralHospital during the early emergence of AIDS as a health and policy issue. He became the associate medical director of San Francisco General’s AIDS Clinic in 1986 and worked toward establishing new strategies for entry and retention of HIV-infected patients and acted as principal investigator for several AIDS Clinical Trial Group Studies. Dr. Goosby also has extensive experience in developing international treatment guidelines and implementing clinican training and local models of care for addressing HIV/AIDS. Dr. Goosby has held many positions in the federal government, where he has acted to advance HIV/AIDS care and prevention. In 1991 he became the Director of HIV Services at the US Public Health Service/ Health Resources and Services Administration where he administered the Ryan White CARE Act to provide funding for people living with AIDS to access care and treatment. He later became director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy in the Department of Health and Human Services in 1994 where he advocated for responsible government HIV/AIDS policy, working with Congress on AIDS-related issues. In 1995 Dr. Goosby created the DHHS Panel on Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV Infections, a group which worked to define the proper use of antiretrovirals and address standards of care for their use in pediatric patients and pregnant women. Dr. Goosby acted as interim director of the National AIDS Policy Office at the White House serving as President Clinton’s senior adviser on HIV-related issues. He has continued to work toward expanding funding for and access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS through treatment, prevention and sensitive policy development.
