David Crowe
Rethinking AIDS President
HBSc Hons. Biology/Mathematics, 1978 (Lakehead University, Ontario). President, Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society. Treasurer, Green Party of Alberta.
Etienne de Harven, MD
Rethinking AIDS Past President
Member and Professor in cell biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, 1956-1981. Isolated and obtained the first electron microscopic studies of the murine Friend leukemia virus, and retroviral budding. Director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the Banting Institute, Department of Pathology, University of Toronto. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
And, in alphabetical order (by last name):
Peter H. Duesberg, PhD
Professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1968-1970 he demonstrated that influenza virus has a segmented genome. This would explain its unique ability to form recombinants by reassortment of subgenomic segments. He isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This, and his subsequent work in the same field, resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health from 1985-1992. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
Christian Fiala, MD
Dr. Christian Fiala is a gynaecologist and obstetrician and currently working in Vienna, but has extensive experience in Thailand and Africa. April, 2007, he established the Museum of Contraception and Abortion. For almost 20 years he has been following critically the scientific and political discussion on the epidemiological aspects of AIDS and contributed actively. He was a member of the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel in South Africa. Dr. Fiala has published many papers focused on the problems of AIDS in Africa and the definition of AIDS. is the author of the book "Do We Love Dangerously? - A Doctor in Search of the Facts and Background to AIDS" (Lieben wir gefaehrlich? - Ein Arzt auf der Suche nach den Fakten und Hintergruenden von AIDS) (1997); and the article in English, Aids: are we being deceived?
Charles L. Geshekter, PhD
Professor of African history at California State University, Chico, recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, National Endowment for the Humanities and Social Science Research Council. From 1991-95, he chaired the History of Science Section of the AAAS and was a member of its Executive Council. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
charles.geshekter@rethinkingaids.com
Roberto Giraldo
MD (University of Antioquia, Colombia, specialty internal medicine); Master of Science in infectious and tropical diseases (U. of London, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
Claus Koehnlein, MD
Specialist in internal medicine, Dept. of Oncology, Univ. of Kiel, Germany (1983 -1993). Since 1993, in private practice increasingly treating HIV- positive people who decline antiviral drugs. Member of SA Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
Helen Lauer, PhD
Associate Professor and Head of Philosphy at the University of Ghana with a PhD from City University in New York. She teaches Ethics, Logic, several types of Philosophy and Critical Thinking for both Humanities and Science students. Her specialties are in the philosophy of mind and language and action theory. She has edited and contributed to two books on the history and philosophy of science and is also editing and contributing to the upcoming books entitled “Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives” and “Thinking Straight about Epidemics, STDs and AIDS in Ghana” (English and Twi). She is the editor of the forthcoming “Culture and Justice”. Dr. Lauer has also published many journal articles, delivered several papers at academic conferences, contributed chapters to anthologies and has produced many other short publications such as review articles.
Robert Leppo
BA, Stanford University (1965); MBA, Harvard Business School (1969). Historian, philanthropist, and investor.
Frank Lusardi
Professional software development.
David Rasnick, PhD
Senior Researcher, Rath Health Foundation, Africa. Between 1978 and 1996, he worked as a pharmaceutical protein chemist at Abbott Laboratories, Enzyme Systems Products, Prototek, Inc., and Khepri Pharmaceuticals. He was a visiting scholar at the department of molecular and cell biology, UC Berkeley (1996-2005), where he worked in the Duesberg laboratory on the aneuploidy theory of cancer. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
Gordon Stewart, MD
Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Univ Glasgow, UK; Formerly professor of epidemiology, Univ. NC at Chapel Hill, NC; Watkins Chair of Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA; Consultant, New York City Health Dept; WHO; Senior Visiting Fellow, US National Science Foundation; Emeritus Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.