Research interests
Background:
Dr. David Hoos is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of
Public Health. His medical training was at New York Medical College, and trained in Internal
Medicine at Harlem Hospital and at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore
Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx. He received his M.P.H from Columbia University.
For many years Dr. Hoos was the Associate Medical Director at the New York State Department of
Health AIDS Institute, and redirected his work towards international AIDS policy and HIV care
and support during a consultancy with UNICEF.
Dr. Hoos is the coordinator at MSPH for the Fogarty International Center of the NIH funded
Columbia University – Southern Africa AIDS International Training and Research Program. In
addition, Dr. Hoos is a member of the MTCT Plus Secretariat at MSPH, with responsibility for
drug procurement for this international HIV/AIDS treatment program. He is responsible also for
several other new international training and technical assistance initiatives at MSPH primarily
in HIV/AIDS related areas. Dr. Hoos is also involved in a HIV seroprevalence study of acute
psychiatric patients in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Dr. Hoos is also serving on a number of international panels related to scale up of
international HIV/AID treatment, including the Procurement Advisory Group to the Global Fund
for AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the HIV/AIDS workgroup for the UN Millenium Development Goals.
