Kevin Fenton, M.D., Ph.D., F.F.P.H., is the Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As NCHHSTP Director, Dr. Fenton oversees all of CDC's work related to the prevention, control and elimination of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB in the United States, as well as CDC's Global AIDS Program, an implementing partner of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Dr. Fenton is a public health specialist and infectious disease epidemiologist with expertise in surveillance, research and prevention related to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV. He also specializes in sexual health promotion; and behavioral surveillance and research. Dr. Fenton has served in a number of academic and community leadership positions, and has consistently focused on addressing racial and ethnic disparities in sexual health. He most recently served as the Director of the HIV and STI Department in the United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency (HPA). He also served, among other posts, as the Chief of CDC's Syphilis Elimination Program, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, and a co-founder of the European STI Surveillance Network (ESSTI).
Dr. Fenton has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals including The Lancet, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of Infectious Diseases. He has served on a number of notable professional committees and as well as editorial boards for journals. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professor at the University of London.
After graduating from the University of the West Indies Medical School in Jamaica, Dr. Fenton earned his Masters in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from University College London.
