Patrick Sullivan is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, the Co-Director of the Prevention Sciences Core at the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and a former Member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He served at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention as an EIS officer from 1994-1996, and subsequently served in CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention as an Epidemiologist, a Team Leader and a Branch Chief. Dr. Sullivan’s career has included work on HIV surveillance at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV vaccine research at National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported HIV Vaccine Trials Network, and research on HIV prevention for men who have sex with men supported by the U.S. NIH and CDC. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, most of which are in infectious diseases with a focus on sexually transmitted infections including HIV, public health surveillance, racial/ethnic disparities in HIV, and STI prevention interventions for men who have sex with men.