Expert Advisory Committee
Dr. Quinn is Senior Investigator and Head of the Section on International AIDS Research in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Since 1981, he has been assigned to the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he is a Professor of Medicine. He also has adjunct appointments in the Departments of International Health, Epidemiology, and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology in The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He currently directs the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine P3 HIV/AIDS Research Facility and the International STD Research Laboratory.
Dr. Quinn's investigations have involved the study of the epidemiologic, virologic, immunologic features of HIV infection in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia. In 1984, he helped establish the interagency project called "Projet SIDA" in Kinshasa, Zaire which was the largest AIDS investigative project in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Quinn has been involved in laboratory investigations which have helped define the biological factors involved in heterosexual transmission and perinatal transmission, the natural history of HIV infections in developing countries, and the identification and characterization of unique strains of HIV-1 infection. Immunologic studies have included the changes in T-cell phenotypes and cytokines in patients with HIV infection and other endemic tropical diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
Dr. Quinn has been involved in HIV clinical and epidemiologic investigations in 25 countries, with current projects in Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, China, Thailand, and Brazil. Among his professional activities, Dr. Quinn is an alternate member of the Technical Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis and has been on Advisor/Consultant on HIV and STDs to the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In October 2004 he received membership in the Institute of Medicine. A fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and a member of the American Association of Physicians, he is an author of nearly 700 publications on HIV, STDs, and infectious diseases.
