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Gregory Pappas, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Pappas recently joined the FDA as the Associate Director for Medical Device Surveillance at Center for Devises and Radiological Health (CDRH). He previously served as the Senior Deputy Director of HAHSTA (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Administration) for the District of Columbia, Department of Health. He has worked professionally in over 30 countries. His consultancies include work with WHO, USAID, and CDC. With InterAction,--the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people -- he worked on pandemic prepared with 40 African and Asian nations.

Gregory Pappas MD, PhD served as the Noordin M. Thobani Professor at the Aga Khan University (AKU), where he was the Chairman of the Department of Community Health Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan.. He has published extensively in international peer reviewed journals on the health of the people of Pakistan and health in other less developed countries. While at AKU he provided university wide leadership for research, training, and service. He also serves as an adviser to the Government of Pakistan on a number of health policy and development areas. Dr. Pappas led the final report of Tawana Pakistan which documented the improvement in education and nutrition of primary school girls in the poorest districts of the country as a result of a school feeding program in over 4000 schools.

Previously he served as Medical Director of the Futures Group, designing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation plan for the antiretroviral program of AIDS Relief, working in nine countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Dr Pappas assisted in the development of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) including contributing to the PEPFAR Five Year Strategy, a report to Congress. Dr Pappas served in a variety of positions over an 18 year period in the Department of Health and Human Services including his role as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health/Surgeon General, David Satcher. For the Surgeon General, Dr Pappas worked in a number of areas including disparities in health and global health (HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases, and health information systems development). Dr Pappas directed the Office of International and Refugee Health, Department of Health and Human Services, serving on the Executive Board of UNICEF and PAHO, and as a delegate to the World Health Assembly. For ORC Macro, as Deputy Director of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) he implemented innovative surveys in Uganda, Mali, Uzbekistan, and Dominican Republic.

Dr Pappas received his MD and PhD (Anthropology) from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. After doing his clinical training, he came to Washington DC, first as a fellowship in Epidemiology, then continuing as a scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics/CDC. Dr Pappas is author of numerous articles, including his work in the New England Journal of Medicine “The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States “and his book with Cornell University Press, The Magic City: unemployment in a working class community. Dr Pappas is on the faculty of the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and is on the faculty of Howard Medical School. Dr Pappas served as Chair of the Science Board and member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. His Megacities and Global Health (APHA Press) with Omar Khan was published in 2012.