2003: Clinical Research in Service of the Public Health - Health Services, Outcomes and Operational Research Abroad, Setting an Agenda for Action - Participants

• Abdel Babiker, Head, Division of HIV and Infections, Medical Research Council, HIV Clinical Trials Centre, University College of London Medical School, London and senior lecturer in epidemiology
• David Barr, consultant, Public Health Program, Open Society Institute
• Michael Bennish, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Community Health at New England Medical Centre Tufts University School of Medicine, and Visiting Professor of International Health in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. Bennish is also Director of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Research in Mtubatuba, South Africa
• Samuel Bozzette, senior research associate with the Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, and the RAND
• Dorothy Bray, Senior Clinical Programme Head, HIV & Opportunistic Infections, Therapeutic Development Group Consultant, Glaxo Wellcome, UK
• Marie Charles, M.D., President of the International Center for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)
• Peter Cherutich, National AIDS/STD Control Program, Ministry of Health, Kenya
• Jay Dobkin, M.D., the Director of the AIDS Center, and an Associate Attending Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital; also the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians, Columbia University
• Roman Dudnik, Executive Director of the Russian National Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, and affiliated with AIDS Foundation East West, Russia
• Mark Dybul, Assistant Director for Medical Staff Affairs and Investigator, Immunopathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Timothy Flanigan, MD, the Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at Rhode Island, Director of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Clinical Immunology at Miriam Hospital and Associate Director of the Brown University AIDS Program; also serves as Director of the Samuel and Esther Chester Immunology Center at The Miriam Hospital
• Charles F. Gilks, M.D., senior adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, UK
• Gregg Gonsalves, Director of Treatment and Prevention Advocacy at Gay Men's Health Crisis, also the co-chair of the National Organizations Responding to AIDS Research Working Group
• Mark Harrington, Executive Director of Treatment Action Group (TAG)
• Arata Kochi, M.D., Director of the Global Tuberculosis Programme and Director of HIV/AIDS Care and Support at the World Health Organization
• Veronica Miller, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research at the Center for Health Services Research and Policy and Associate Research Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the George Washington University School of Public Health
• Paolo Miotti, M.D., M.P.H., is a pediatrician and medical officer in National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)'s Division of AIDS
• James Neaton, PhD., Professor and bio-statistician at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
• Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Medical Director of the Prevention of Mother-To-Child-Transmission-Plus Initiative
• Mauro Schechter, MD, PhD, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitario Clementino Fraga Filho Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also on the Scientific Advisory Committee and the Clinical Trials Subcommittee at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Catherine Seyler, Agencie Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA, Ivory Coast
• David Stanton, Director of U.S. Agency of International Development's (USAID) Office of HIV/AIDS and Director of the Research & Technical Division, USAID, Division of HIV/AIDS
• Robin Wood, M.D., Director of The Diana, Princess of Wales, HIV Research Foundation, Head of the Department of Medicine, Somerset Hospital, and senior lecturer at University of Cape Town
• Vitaly Zhumagaliev is Coordinator of the Public Health Program at Open Health Institute (OSI) in Russia