Professor William Blattner

Professor William Blattner is a Director of the Board of Directors of IHVN. He is involved in developing Nigeria‘s capacity to implement the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the country by supporting laboratory and clinical capacity building, training of providers and developing implementation structure to ensure that antiretroviral therapy is administered well to avoid the development of drug resistance.

Also as scientific leader in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, Professor Blattner is directly involved in the research activities of the Division’s scientists and their science, in mentoring their career development as independent academic investigators, and in building structures to support their research. Division scientists engage in research involving four areas: Operations and Implementation Research; Clinical Epidemiology; Cancer Epidemiology; and Pathogenesis Research. In most cases, these research projects take advantage of the substantial clinical and laboratory infrastructure built through a $240 million PEPFAR investment in IHVN.

Over the years, Professor Blattner has integrated laboratory science into his epidemiological research and this continues to be a major focus, abetted by Dr. Jean Carr’s molecular epidemiology expertise and collaborative interactions with the Institute and some scientists outside IHV.

A graduate of Washington University School of Medicine, Professor Blattner – an internationally renowned expert on AIDS and the viral epidemiology of cancer – is a Professor of Medicine; and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. William Blattner is also Co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute of Human Virology based in Baltimore, USA.