Supporters

Organizations in Support of Plaintiffs

Current and Former Members of Congress in Support of Plaintiffs

Representative Howard L. Berman—Democratic Member of the House of Representatives from 1983-2013, Former Member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2003, Former Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2008-2011

Senator Thomas A. Daschle—Democratic Senator from 1987-2005, Senate Majority Leader from 2001-2003, Senate Minority Leader from 1995-2001 and 2003-2005; Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Church and Global AIDS

Senator Michael B. Enzi—Republican Senator since 1997, Former Chairman from 2005-2007 and Ranking Minority Member from 2008-2012 of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee

Senator William R. Frist, M.D.—Republican Senator from 1995-2007, Senate Majority leader from 2003-2007; nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon

Representative James Kolbe—Republican Member of the House of Representatives from 1985-2007, Former Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs (now known as the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs); recipient of the George Marshall Award for Distinguished Service from the United States Agency for International Development

Senator Patrick Leahy—Democratic Senator since 1974, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Representative Barbara Lee—Democratic Member of the House of Representatives since 1998, Member of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies and Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs

Representative Nita M. Lowey—Democratic Member of the House of Representatives since 1989, Ranking Democratic Member of the House Appropriations Committee and its Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Former Chair of the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Representative Henry A. Waxman—Democratic Member of the House of Representative since 1975, Ranking Member and Former Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Former Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Former Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health and the Environment

Individuals in Support of Plaintiffs

Aziza Ahmed, JD, SM—Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH—Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law

Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH—Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program; Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights; Co-PI, Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research; and Associate Director, Center for Global Health

Paul D. Clearly, PhD—Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health; Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)

José F. Cordero, MD, MPH—Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico

James Curran, MD, MPH—Dean and Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Co-Director of Emory’s Center for AIDS Research; former Co-Chair of the first IOM Evaluation Report on PEPFAR Implementation (2007)

Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD—Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chair of the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Co-Founder, Partners in Health; United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD—Dean of the Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health; T&G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

Lance Gable, JD, MPH—Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School

Lawrence O. Gostin—University Professor, Georgetown Law School; Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law and the Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights

Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA—Professor of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine, Gould School of Law and Director, Program on Global Health and Human Rights, Institute for Global Health, University of Southern California; Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Michel Kazatchkine, MD—Professor of Medicine, Université René Descartes in Paris; former Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Senior fellow of the Global Health Program at the Institute for International Affairs and Development in Geneva; UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Martin McKee, CBE, MD, DSc—Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Peter Piot, MD, PhD, FMedSci—Director and Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Former Executive Director of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) and former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations

Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH—Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Vice-chair of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services

Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA—Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, UC-Berkeley

Steffanie A. Strathdee, PhD—Harold Simon Professor, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, and Chief, Division of Global Public Health, University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Lindsay F. Wiley, JD, MPH—Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Health Law & Justice Program at American University Washington College of Law