Cotton, Deborah, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency training: Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
Fellowship training: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Cancer Institute
MPH: John Hopkins University
Dr. Deborah Cotton is Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. From 1998-2001, Dr. Cotton served as Assistant Provost for Clinical Research for the Boston University Medical Campus and Director, Office of Clinical Research, and from 2001-2004 was Chief of the Medical Service of the VA Boston Healthcare System. She is currently Chief Medical Officer of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, which works in over twenty countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America to promote the prevention and treatment of HIV infection by providing low-cost drugs and diagnostics, clinical training and mentoring, clinical operations scale up, and national guideline development. Dr. Cotton’s research concerns the clinical epidemiology of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. She is currently the Principal Investigator of CHARM, a large cohort study of hepatitis C/HIV co infection funded by NIDA. She is also the Director of the Consortium for Strategic Operations Research at the Clinton Foundation, which is supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Cotton has served on numerous national committees including the FDA Antiviral Advisory Committee (member and chair), the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine, and the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council. She currently serves on the National and Global Public Health Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Executive Committee of the Forum on Collaborative HIV Research.
