- James Chin
James (Jim) Chin has been a
public health epidemiologist. He works in public health surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases. He has studied the AIDS pandemic from the early 1980s in California – where he was responsible for surveillance and control of communicable diseases – to the late 1980s at theWorld Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for developing the methods and guidelines for global and regional HIV/AIDS surveillance. During his public health career, he has held leadership positions at State, National, and International organizations and received recognition for his work as an infectious disease epidemiologist. Since his resignation from GPA/WHO in 1992, he has worked as an independent consultant for different international agencies to evaluate the patterns and prevalence of HIV in developing countries – primarily in Africa and Asia.Public Health Background and Experience
*"International Research Fellow" with the Hooper Foundation, UC Medical Center, San Francisco and the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1961-1964.
*"Research Epidemiologist", California State Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Laboratory, Berkeley, California and Fort Ord, California, 1964-1967
*"Head", General Epidemiology unit, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, 1968-1971
*"Elected member", American Epidemiological Society (AES), 1973
*"Chief", Infectious Disease Section, California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, 1971-1987
*"President", Conference of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), 1977-1978
*"Chairman", National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 1982-1985
*"Member", Armed Forces Epidemiologic Board (AFEB),1977-1983 and 1993-1998
*"Section editor (Communicable Diseases)" for the 11th [1980] and 12th [1986] editions of Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine (John Last editor) Appleton-Century Crofts/New York
*"Associate editor" for the 14th (1985) and 15th (1990) edition of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Control of Communicable Diseases in Man (CCDM)
*"Chief", Surveillance, Forecasting and Impact Assessment unit (SFI) of the Global Programme on AIDS,World Health Organization , Geneva, Switzerland from 1987-1992
*"Consultant", HIV/AIDS in developing countries for International agencies: UNAIDS, WHO, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, USAID, DFID, 1992 to present
*"Recipient", John Snow award in 1993 for career contributions to public health epidemiology from the APHA Epidemiology Section
*"Editor", 17th edition (2000) of the APHA’s Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (CCDM)
*"Member", Advisory Council for Public Health Preparedness (An Advisory Council to the Secretary of HHS, 2001- 2004)
*"Author", The AIDS Pandemic "the collision of epidemiology with political correctness" (January 2007, Radcliffe Publishing, Ltd) http://www.theaidspandemic.com http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=1+84619+118+1
*"Clinical Professor of Epidemiology", School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 1992 to present.----
Doctor James Chin became the editor in chief for the 17th edition [2000] of the "
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual " [CCDM] .He was a member of the editorial board in the early 1970s. Hundreds of international specialists in infectious disease have contributed to the update of the entries.
Abram Salmon Benenson was the editor for so long (from 1970 to 1995) that the manual was often known as "Benenson's book".External links
* [http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/chin.html UC Berkeley School of Public Health - Faculty]
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