Speaker Bio

Seth Berkley, President, CEO and Founder, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Seth Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a global nonprofit organization operating in 24 countries, to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible and preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world. He is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international health. 

Prior to founding IAVI in 1996, Dr. Berkley was an officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and for the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. In Africa, he played a key role in Uganda’s national HIV sero-survey and helped develop its National AIDS Control programs.

He is an adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University and an adjunct Professor of Medicine at Brown University, sits on a number of international steering committees, corporate and nonprofit boards and has consulted or worked in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The author of over 85 publications, Dr. Berkley has written extensively on infectious disease and frequently serves as a media commentator on health technology development, AIDS and global health issues. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in Internal Medicine at Harvard University.


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