Dr. Tom Quinn is professor of medicine, pathology, international health, epidemiology, molecular microbiology and immunology at John Hopkins University Medical Institutions. He is founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. He is also senior investigator and head of the Section on International HIV/STD at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. One of the first western scientists to identify AIDS in Africa in 1983, he is now a leading authority on the epidemiology, transmission, and models of care for HIV in Africa and other developing nations. Dr. Quinn is responsible for the creation and operation of the state-of-the-art HIV-dedicated laboratory facility at the new Institute.