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OFFICE OF AIDS RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS

The Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) provides advice to the director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) on the planning, coordination, and evaluation of HIV and AIDS-related research and other activities conducted or supported by NIH.  

OARAC consists of up to 18 voting members; at least 11 non-voting ex officio members, including the NIH Director and the OAR Director; and an executive secretary.

Chairperson
Ivy E. Turnbull, D.L.P., Ed.M., M.A. (’24)
Deputy Executive Director 
AIDS Alliance for Women, Infants, Children, Youth & Families 
The AIDS Institute 
Washington, DC 20006
Diana Finzi, Ph.D.
Acting Associate Director for AIDS Research and
Acting Director, Office of AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health
Rockville, MD 20852

 

MEMBERS
Omar Galarraga, Ph.D. (’25)
Associate Professor
Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice
Brown University School of Public Health
Providence, RI 02912
Mojgan H. Naghavi, Ph.D. (’25)
Professor
Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL 60611
Shruti H. Mehta, Ph.D. (’24)
Vice Chair for Research and Administration
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21205
Anne M. Neilan, M.D., M.P.H. (’25)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Pediatrics, Assistant in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 02114
Luis J. Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil. (’25)
Vice President for Scientific Operations
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, PA 19104
 

 

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health and Human Services
Xavier Becerra, J.D.
Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
Washington, DC 20201
Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D.
Director, Division of AIDS
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Rockville, MD 20852
National Institutes of Health
Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Rohan Hazra, M.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Research
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, MD 20892
National Institutes of Health
Tara A. Schwetz, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892
Representative for the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council

 
U.S. Department of Defense
COL Julie A. Ake, M.D., M.Sc.
Director, U.S. Military HIV Research Program
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
U.S. Department of Defense
Rockville, MD 20852
Representative for the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
Melanie Ott, M.D., Ph.D.
Director and Senior Investigator
Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Professor
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94158
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Victoria J. Davey, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Chief Research and Development Officer
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC 20420
Representative for the National Cancer Advisory Board
Christopher R. Friese, Ph.D., RN
Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
Director, Center for Improving Patient and Population Health
Associate Director for Cancer Control and Population Sciences
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
RADM Jonathan Mermin, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis,
STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA 30333
Representative for the National Advisory Mental Health Council
Marguerita Lightfoot, Ph.D. 
Associate Dean for Research at the Oregon Health & Science University 
Portland State University School of Public Health
Portland, OR 97201

 

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
CAPT Mary Glenshaw, Ph.D., M.P.H. 
Acting Deputy Director
Office of AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

This page last reviewed on August 27, 2024