John T. Brooks MD

Dr. John T. Brooks serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention where he coordinates the division’s activities related to the new national “Ending the HIV Epidemic” initiative. Dr. Brooks is a nationally known expert on using public health research to improve the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. In addition to his work on HIV/AIDS, he has devoted many hours to working on national and global disasters including working on surveillance for infectious diseases during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, leading domestic surveillance for SARS during the 2003 outbreak, and assisting with clinical monitoring during the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001. Most recently, Dr. Brooks led the 2014 Ebola Response Medical Care Task Force during the period when the epidemic was accelerating in West Africa and the first cases were diagnosed in the United States.