U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Public Health Strategic Health Care Group (13B)
810 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington
DCUSA
20420
Biographical Sketch: Ronald O. Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H. is currently the Chief Consultant for the Public Health Strategic Health Care Group in the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In this capacity, Dr. Valdiserri directs several national public health programs serving veterans across the United States. His work includes evaluation of VA public health programs and policies and the dissemination of best practices in several areas that have a high impact on VA and national health, including HIV, hepatitis C, smoking and tobacco use, and the public health aspects of emerging infectious diseases.
Prior to joining the VA in September 2006, Dr. Valdiserri spent 18 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 1996 and 2006, he was the Deputy Director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention where he played a key role in the development of policies and programs to prevent and control HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis. Prior to joining the CDC in 1989, he spent nearly a decade in medical academia at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr. Valdiserri has written numerous scholarly articles on the scientific and policy aspects of HIV/AIDS prevention, including one of the first published randomized controlled trials of a peer-led small group intervention promoting sexual risk reduction among gay men. He authored a textbook on the design, implementation, and evaluation of AIDS prevention programs, published in 1989 by Rutgers University Press. In May 1994, Cornell University Press published Dr. Valdiserri’s book of essays on AIDS, “Gardening in Clay.” And in 2003 he edited a text for Oxford University Press on the evolving influence of HIV/AIDS on public health theory and practice. In 2008, he co-edited a text for Oxford University Press addressing health disparities among gay and bisexual men in the United States.