James W. Curran, MD, MPH

James W. Curran Dean of Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health,

Emory University; Emeritus Co-Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research

Jim Curran joined the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) as Dean and Professor of Epidemiology in 1995, following 25 years of leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is Emeritus Co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, and holds faculty appointments in the Emory School of Medicine and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.

In 1981, Jim led a CDC task force charged with determining what was behind the first cases of what we now know as AIDS. While at the CDC, he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General.

After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, Jim received his MD from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Harvard University. Author or co-author of more than 290 scholarly publications, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

In 2015, Jim was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. In 2009, the Rollins School of Public Health Dean’s position was named the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health in his honor.

Jim will welcome attendees to the inaugural Rollins Innovation Summit on Day 1.