Dr. Keith Crawford is currently a Program Officer in the Therapeutic Research Program in Division of AIDS, at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He has over 25 years of experience in treatment of chronic infectious diseases, clinical and translational research.
While a professor of Pharmacology at Howard University College of Medicine, he worked in two HIV-specialty clinics. He did clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine through the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, the largest global network for HIV research. He headed the research division of the PEPFAR program (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) under the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), directing research and clinical care in HIV infection, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases, in four African countries.
He has published in leading infectious disease research journals. He has served on the Editorial Board of the journal AIDS, the oldest specialty HIV research journal in the world.