Influence of Global AIDS Professionals

Wednesday, June 9. 2004

Which AIDS professionals are most influential on global AIDS policy issues? One way to approach this (probably unanswerable) question is to check Google citations. Google searches in the format ("jim cashel" aids) resulted in the following results:

Name / Organization / Google Citations

Peter Piot / UNAIDS / 25900
Tom Coates / UCLA / 6780
Paul Farmer / Harvard University / 6310
Richard Feachem / Global Fund / 5390
Helene Gayle / Gates Foundation / 4430
Alan Whiteside / University of Natal, South Africa / 3270
Seth Berkley / International AIDS Vaccine Initiative / 2740
Paulo Teixeira / Ministry of Health, Brazil / 2120
John Stover / Futures Group / 1520
Vadim Pokrovsky / Russian Center for AIDS Prevention and Control / 1320
Debrework Zewdie / World Bank / 971
Geeta Rao Gupta/ International Center for Research on Women / 914
Mead Over / World Bank / 748
Marina Mahathir / Malaysian AIDS Council / 721
Catherine Hankins / UNAIDS / 712
Milly Katana / Health Rights Action Group, Uganda / 680
Mechai Viravaidya / Population and Community Development Association, Thailand / 674
Michael Merson / Yale School of Medicine / 651
Salim Abdool Karim / University of Natal, South Africa / 593
William Makgoba / Medical Research Council, South Africa / 579
Zeda Rosenberg / Internation Partnership for Microbicides / 553
David Serwadda / Makere University, Uganda / 530
Bernhard Schwartlander / WHO / 527
Peter Lamptey / Family Health International / 523
Ties Boerma / WHO / 489
Susan Kippax / University of New South Wales, Australia / 443
Rafael Mazin / Pan American Health Organization / 418
Awa Marie Coll-Seck / Ministry of Health, Senegal /301
Yiming Shao / National Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and Control, China / 228

Sorry if there are misspellings or if folks routinely go by more than one name -- but this isn't intended to be published in Science, just to get an idea of whose voices are loudest.

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