For 18 years, Professor Detels has been the program director of the National Institutes of Health UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, which has trained over 110 health professionals from China, India, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines and Laos in epidemiology and HIV/AIDS. He has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization and the UNAIDS programs in China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam; for USAID in the Philippines and Cambodia; the United Nations Development Programme in Myanmar; and Family Health International in Cambodia. He has assisted the governments of Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia in the development of their HIV sentinel surveillance systems. Professor Detels has spoken on HIV/AIDS throughout the world and has published over 175 papers on HIV/AIDS from a total of over 300 published papers and chapters on various topics since 1966.  He is the senior editor of the third and fourth editions of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health.

EDUCATION AND PAST POSITIONS

Professor Detels received his training at Harvard College, New York University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington.  He began his research career at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Taipei, Taiwan in 1966. In 1969, he joined the research staff of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.  In 1971, he moved to the Department of Epidemiology in UCLA's School of Public Health, his current affiliation.  During his tenure at UCLA, he has served as Chair of Epidemiology (1971-1980, 2001-2005) and as Dean of the School of Public Health (1980-1985).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Professor Detels served as president of the Society of Epidemiologic Research (1977-1978), as secretary-treasurer of the Association of Schools of Public Health (1983-1985), as treasurer of the International Epidemiologic Association (IEA) (1983-1990), and as president of the IEA (1990-1993). He continued to serve on the Executive Committee of the IEA (1983-1999).  He also served as a member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) (1990-1993), on the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology (1987-1989), and as chair of the Science Review Panel for the Environmental Protection Agency (1982-1985).  In 1994, Professor Detels was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.