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Personal Biography of Dr. Sean Philpott

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Dr. Sean Philpott is Director of Science and Ethics for the Global Campaign for Microbicides, based at PATH, an international nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of people around the world. Dr. Philpott guides and helps implement the Global Campaign's work related to ethics, access and policy advocacy for user-controlled tools to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He received his undergraduate degrees in biology and medical anthropology from the University of California at San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Health Microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health and a Masters of Science in Bioethics from the Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI). Prior to joining the Campaign, Dr. Philpott was Associate Professor of Medicine at Albany Medical College and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health. In addition, he served as the Associate Director of AMBI and as Executive Editor of the award-winning journal The American Journal of Bioethics. He also worked for ten years as a tenured Research Scientist and Public Health Officer with the New York State Department of Health, served on the New York State Department of Health Institutional Review Board and the New York Working Group on Bioethics, and consulted with various governmental and non-governmental bodies, such as the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research.


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