Thomas Quinn

Dr. Thomas Quinn is Distinguished Investigator and Head of the Section on International HIV/AIDS Research in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is also Associate Director for International Research for the Division of Intramural Research at NIAID. In addition, he is Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Professor of International Health, Epidemiology, and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology in The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. In 2006, he was appointed founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health.

Dr. Quinn’s research interests have involved laboratory and field investigations that have helped define the biological factors involved in sexual and perinatal transmission of HIV, the natural history and treatment of HIV infections, and the molecular epidemiology of HIV in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine where he is Chair of the Board of Global Health. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Quinn is a member of the Technical Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis and has been on Advisor/Consultant on HIV and STDs to the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

He is an author of over 1000 publications on HIV, STDs, and infectious diseases.