1. Eric Goosby was born on 1952 and is an American public health official, currently serving as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, Institute for Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco.
Dr Goosby previously served as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis as well as previously served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from 2009 until mid-November 2013.
Eric Goosby was sworn in during June 2009 and resigned in November 2013, taking a position as a professor at UCSF, where he directs the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy, a collaboration between UCSF and the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric Goosby was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Dr Zuretti Eric Goosby, a dentist and politician who served on the San Francisco Board of Education.
Eric Goosby earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Princeton University.
Eric Goosby received his MD in 1978 from the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed his residency in 1981.
Eric Goosby then completed a two-year Kaiser Fellowship at UCSF in General Internal Medicine with a subspecialty in Infectious Diseases.
In 1991, Eric Goosby began his government career as director of HIV Services at the Health Resources and Services Administration, in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
In 1995, Eric Goosby created and convened the DHHS Panel on Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV Infections.
In 1997, Eric Goosby served as interim director of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House, reporting directly to the President as his senior advisor on HIV-related issues.
Eric Goosby's office was responsible for guiding the implementation of this initiative at HHS over the next three years.
Eric Goosby's office coordinated scientific reviews of needle exchange as a public health intervention.
Eric Goosby was a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a clinical provider for the 360 Men of Color Program.
Eric Goosby has served on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation since 2013.
On June 23,2009, Eric Goosby was sworn in as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, heading up the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
At the time of his swearing in, Eric Goosby stated that his top priorities included:.