Donald Pinkston Francis
Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, USA
Biography
Donald Pinkston Francis, completed undergraduate studies at the U.C. Berkeley, received his M.D. from Northwestern University and his Doctor of Science in Virology from Harvard. He joined CDC in the early 1970s, where combated smallpox, cholera, Ebola and AIDS. His early work on HIV/AIDS was chronicled in Randy Shilts? And the Band Played On. From 1988 to 1992, he was Special Consultant on AIDS to San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. After retiring from CDC in 1992 he worked on HIV vaccines at Genentech, VaxGen and now a not-for-profit company GSID.
Abstract
Abstract : Dramatic changes in the development and supply of vaccines for the world