PERSON: Demetre Daskalakis
Employer
National Center for Immunization and Respirator Diseases (NCIRD)
Position
Director
Biography
Demetre C. Daskalakis (born 1972/1973) is an American physician and gay health activist serving as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), and former director of the Division of HIV Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. During the administration of Joe Biden, he was appointed deputy coordinator of the White House’s mpox response to the 2022–2023 outbreak of the disease.
Daskalakis worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, where at one time he held the position of medical director of ambulatory HIV services. He was also an assistant professor at New York University. His work with the “Men’s Sexual Health Project,” which he founded in 2006, involved working in sex clubs and bathhouses to test men for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and direct them to care.
Daskalakis joined the New York City Department of Health in 2013. During a 2012-2013 meningitis outbreak in the city, Daskalakis opened a pop-up clinic as part of a vaccination campaign targeting at-risk groups, such as men who had sex with men, and was credited with halting it. By 2014, he was deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Daskalakis was a member of governor Andrew Cuomo’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force, an effort to decrease HIV transmission rates in New York City. Since joining the city’s health department, he has promoted the concept of “status-neutral care,” a strategy for HIV treatment and prevention which takes the same approach to initial patient care regardless of the patient’s HIV status. The concept was part of the plan for the Ending the Epidemic campaign.
Starting on December 21, 2020, he served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, later renamed the Division of HIV Prevention in October 2021. On August 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed him as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator to respond to the 2022–2023 outbreak of the disease. He was subsequently appointed as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).
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Daskalakis worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, where at one time he held the position of medical director of ambulatory HIV services. He was also an assistant professor at New York University. His work with the “Men’s Sexual Health Project,” which he founded in 2006, involved working in sex clubs and bathhouses to test men for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and direct them to care.
Daskalakis joined the New York City Department of Health in 2013. During a 2012-2013 meningitis outbreak in the city, Daskalakis opened a pop-up clinic as part of a vaccination campaign targeting at-risk groups, such as men who had sex with men, and was credited with halting it. By 2014, he was deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Daskalakis was a member of governor Andrew Cuomo’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force, an effort to decrease HIV transmission rates in New York City. Since joining the city’s health department, he has promoted the concept of “status-neutral care,” a strategy for HIV treatment and prevention which takes the same approach to initial patient care regardless of the patient’s HIV status. The concept was part of the plan for the Ending the Epidemic campaign.
Starting on December 21, 2020, he served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, later renamed the Division of HIV Prevention in October 2021. On August 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed him as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator to respond to the 2022–2023 outbreak of the disease. He was subsequently appointed as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).
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