Helene Gayle Appointed President and CEO of CARE USA
Helene Gayle Appointed President and CEO of CARE USA
Atlanta-based CARE USA has announced the appointment of Helene Gayle, a senior executive with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as its new president and CEO.
Gayle, who will officially assume the post in spring 2006, when CARE's current CEO, Peter D. Bell, steps down after more than a decade of service, will become the first woman and the first person of color to lead the international anti-poverty organization in its sixty-year history. As director of the Seattle-based Gates Foundation's HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health program, Gayle has overseen a portfolio of approximately $1.5 billion in grants. Under her leadership, the foundation expanded its support for HIV and TB prevention, treatment, and research programs, and developed a strategy to improve global access to reproductive health.
Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in 2001, Gayle worked for nearly twenty years at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where, as the director of CDC's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, she oversaw programs with a combined annual budget of more than $1 billion. She also studied malnutrition in children in the United States and internationally, evaluated and implemented child survival programs in Africa, and worked on HIV/AIDS research, programs, and policy.
Gayle currently serves as co-chair of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, an alliance dedicated to accelerating HIV/AIDS vaccine research, and of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group, an international panel of HIV/AIDS experts; sits on the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; and is president of the International AIDS Society.
"I am deeply honored to be asked to lead this incredible organization," said Gayle in a statement. "From post-WWII 'CARE Packages,' to emergency relief, to fighting HIV/AIDS, gender inequity, and poverty overall, CARE has been there to make a difference in people's lives and to be a force for social justice."
“CARE Board Names Dr. Helene Gayle as New President/CEO.”
CARE USA Press Release
12/02/05.
“Dr. Helene Gayle to Head CARE USA.”
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Press Release
12/02/05.
Primary Subject: Philanthropy and Voluntarism
Location(s): Atlanta, Georgia, International
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