David Holtgrave Joins HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee
I am very excited to announce that Dr. David Holtgrave has joined Palette’s HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee. Since 2005, Dr. David Holtgrave has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Holtgrave was Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. There he served as Director of the Behavioral & Social Science Core of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Holtgrave was Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Intervention Research and Support in the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Division has major responsibilities in funding HIV prevention programs, providing technical assistance to HIV prevention service delivery organizations, conducting program evaluation studies, and performing HIV prevention intervention research. He also worked on HIV prevention at CDC in other capacities from 1991-1995.
Dr. Holtgrave has worked in the field of HIV prevention since 1991. His long-standing program of research focuses on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a variety of HIV prevention interventions, and the relation of the findings of these studies to HIV prevention policy making. More recently, Dr. Holtgrave has included in his work a focus on tobacco use prevention and smoking cessation; in particular, understanding the linkages between HIV and tobacco use. He has authored or co-authored over 220 professional publications, and has edited The Handbook of Economic Evaluation for HIV Prevention Programs.