Eric Goosby, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medicine
+1 415 476-5483

Dr Eric Goosby was appointed the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, 2015-2018.  As Special Envoy, Dr Goosby worked to raise the profile of the fight against TB and promote the adoption, financing and implementation of the World Health Organization’s global End TB strategy and its international targets for TB prevention, care and control, and focused on establishing the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on TB in 2019.  Dr Goosby has dedicated his professional life to tackling global health diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and TB.  Between 2009 and 2013, he served in the US State department as the Ambassador-at-Large and the US Global AIDS Coordinator, directing the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.  He is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, Institute for Global Health Sciences. 

Publications: 

Scientific advances and the end of tuberculosis: a report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis.

Lancet (London, England)

Reid M, Agbassi YJP, Arinaminpathy N, Bercasio A, Bhargava A, Bhargava M, Bloom A, Cattamanchi A, Chaisson R, Chin D, Churchyard G, Cox H, Denkinger CM, Ditiu L, Dowdy D, Dybul M, Fauci A, Fedaku E, Gidado M, Harrington M, Hauser J, Heitkamp P, Herbert N, Herna Sari A, Hopewell P, Kendall E, Khan A, Kim A, Koek I, Kondratyuk S, Krishnan N, Ku CC, Lessem E, McConnell EV, Nahid P, Oliver M, Pai M, Raviglione M, Ryckman T, Schäferhoff M, Silva S, Small P, Stallworthy G, Temesgen Z, van Weezenbeek K, Vassall A, Velásquez GE, Venkatesan N, Yamey G, Zimmerman A, Jamison D, Swaminathan S, Goosby E

Seizing opportunities to end TB: a call for ambition and optimism on World TB Day.

Lancet (London, England)

Reid M, Yamey G, Goosby E, Jamison D, Schäferhoff M

Scaling up public mental health care in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from infectious disease.

Global mental health (Cambridge, England)

Meffert SM, Lawhorn C, Ongeri L, Bukusi E, Campbell HR, Goosby E, Bertozzi SM, Kahonge SN

COVID-19 and global equity for health: The good, the bad, and the wicked.

PLoS medicine

Geng EH, Reid MJA, Goosby E, Abdool-Karim Q

Integrating Social Determinants in Decision-Making Processes for Health: Insights from Conceptual Frameworks-the 3-D Commission.

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

Martins DC, Babajide O, Maani N, Abdalla SM, Gómez EJ, Pongsiri MJ, Tlou S, Leung GM, Benjamin GC, Goosby E, Dain K, Vega J, Zeinali Z, Stoeva P, Galea S, Sturchio J, Twum-Danso NAY

Improving Decision-Making for Population Health in Nonhealth Sectors in Urban Environments: the Example of the Transportation Sector in Three Megacities-the 3-D Commission.

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

Babajide O, Martins DC, Maani N, Abdalla SM, Gómez EJ, Pongsiri MJ, Tlou S, Leung GM, Benjamin GC, Goosby E, Dain K, Vega J, Zeinali Z, Galea S, Sturchio J, Twum-Danso NAY

Masks Reduce Viral Inoculum of SARS-CoV2.

Journal of general internal medicine

Gandhi M, Beyrer C, Goosby E

World TB day: a new opportunity to reimagine workplace health.

BMJ global health

Reid M, Silva S, Goosby EP

Importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions in lowering the viral inoculum to reduce susceptibility to infection by SARS-CoV-2 and potentially disease severity.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Spinelli MA, Glidden DV, Gennatas ED, Bielecki M, Beyrer C, Rutherford G, Chambers H, Goosby E, Gandhi M

Building a tuberculosis-free world while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lancet (London, England)

Reid MJA, Silva S, Arinaminpathy N, Goosby E

Improving quality is necessary to building a TB-free world: Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis.

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Reid MJA, Goosby E

Challenges to generating political prioritization for adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Kenya: A qualitative study.

PloS one

Onono MA, Brindis CD, White JS, Goosby E, Okoro DO, Bukusi EA, Rutherford GW

Employing the Payback Framework to Assess Implementation Science Research Utilization: Lessons From the USAID's PEPFAR HIV/AIDS Implementation Science Awards.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Castor D, Kimmel AL, McFall A, Padian N, Yansaneh A, Wiant S, Sandison S, Holmes C, Lucas R, Stanton D, Goosby E, Kottiri B

Global Fund replenishment brings us one step closer to ending tuberculosis.

The Lancet. Global health

Reid M, Von Zinkernagel D, Beyeler N, Goosby E

Improving the cascade of global tuberculosis care: moving from the "what" to the "how" of quality improvement.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Agins BD, Ikeda DJ, Reid MJA, Goosby E, Pai M, Cattamanchi A

A tuberculosis-free world: is it a delusion? - Authors' reply.

Lancet (London, England)

Reid MJA, Goosby E

The Global Fund, Governance, and Accountability.

Annals of global health

Goosby E

The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development.

Lancet (London, England)

Gostin LO, Monahan JT, Kaldor J, DeBartolo M, Friedman EA, Gottschalk K, Kim SC, Alwan A, Binagwaho A, Burci GL, Cabal L, DeLand K, Evans TG, Goosby E, Hossain S, Koh H, Ooms G, Roses Periago M, Uprimny R, Yamin AE

The HIV response and global health.

Lancet (London, England)

Glass RI, El-Sadr W, Goosby E, Kupfer LE

Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis.

Lancet (London, England)

Reid MJA, Arinaminpathy N, Bloom A, Bloom BR, Boehme C, Chaisson R, Chin DP, Churchyard G, Cox H, Ditiu L, Dybul M, Farrar J, Fauci AS, Fekadu E, Fujiwara PI, Hallett TB, Hanson CL, Harrington M, Herbert N, Hopewell PC, Ikeda C, Jamison DT, Khan AJ, Koek I, Krishnan N, Motsoaledi A, Pai M, Raviglione MC, Sharman A, Small PM, Swaminathan S, Temesgen Z, Vassall A, Venkatesan N, van Weezenbeek K, Yamey G, Agins BD, Alexandru S, Andrews JR, Beyeler N, Bivol S, Brigden G, Cattamanchi A, Cazabon D, Crudu V, Daftary A, Dewan P, Doepel LK, Eisinger RW, Fan V, Fewer S, Furin J, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Gomez GB, Graham SM, Gupta D, Kamene M, Khaparde S, Mailu EW, Masini EO, McHugh L, Mitchell E, Moon S, Osberg M, Pande T, Prince L, Rade K, Rao R, Remme M, Seddon JA, Selwyn C, Shete P, Sachdeva KS, Stallworthy G, Vesga JF, Vilc V, Goosby EP

Leveraging health diplomacy to end the tuberculosis epidemic.

The Lancet. Global health

Reid M, Goosby E, Kevany S

To End TB, First-Ever High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis Must Address Stigma.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Daftary A, Mitchell EMH, Reid MJA, Fekadu E, Goosby E

Eradicating TB.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Reid MJA, Goosby E

Preventing tuberculosis among high-risk workers.

The Lancet. Global health

Gottesfeld P, Reid M, Goosby E

Have geopolitics influenced decisions on American health foreign assistance efforts during the Obama presidency?

Journal of global health

Gupta V, Tsai AC, Mason-Sharma A, Goosby EP, Jha AK, Kerry VB

Global governance of antimicrobial resistance.

Lancet (London, England)

Rochford C, Sridhar D, Woods N, Saleh Z, Hartenstein L, Ahlawat H, Whiting E, Dybul M, Cars O, Goosby E, Cassels A, Velasquez G, Hoffman S, Baris E, Wadsworth J, Gyansa-Lutterodt M, Davies S

The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis: building a tuberculosis-free world.

Lancet (London, England)

Goosby E, Jamison D, Swaminathan S, Reid M, Zuccala E

Patient-Centered Tuberculosis Programs Are Necessary to End the Epidemic.

The Journal of infectious diseases

Reid MJA, Goosby E

Crossing the Finish Line.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Goosby E, Abrams E, Bekker LG, Mushavi A

Lessons learned from the HIV care cascade can help End TB.

The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Reid MJ, Goosby E

Children with TB: neglected no more . . ..

The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Reid MJ, Goosby E

Health impact of human rights testimony: harming the most vulnerable?

BMJ global health

Meffert SM, Shome S, Neylan TC, Musalo K, Fineberg HV, Cooke MM, Volberding PA, Goosby EP

Public health and international drug policy.

Lancet (London, England)

Csete J, Kamarulzaman A, Kazatchkine M, Altice F, Balicki M, Buxton J, Cepeda J, Comfort M, Goosby E, Goulão J, Hart C, Kerr T, Lajous AM, Lewis S, Martin N, Mejía D, Camacho A, Mathieson D, Obot I, Ogunrombi A, Sherman S, Stone J, Vallath N, Vickerman P, Zábranský T, Beyrer C

Transforming Global Health by Improving the Science of Scale-Up.

PLoS biology

Kruk ME, Yamey G, Angell SY, Beith A, Cotlear D, Guanais F, Jacobs L, Saxenian H, Victora C, Goosby E

Out of the shadows: shining a light on children with tuberculosis.

The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Goosby E

Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola.

Lancet (London, England)

Moon S, Sridhar D, Pate MA, Jha AK, Clinton C, Delaunay S, Edwin V, Fallah M, Fidler DP, Garrett L, Goosby E, Gostin LO, Heymann DL, Lee K, Leung GM, Morrison JS, Saavedra J, Tanner M, Leigh JA, Hawkins B, Woskie LR, Piot P

Politics and Universal Health Coverage--The Post-2015 Global Health Agenda.

The New England journal of medicine

Gupta V, Kerry VB, Goosby E, Yates R

Defeating AIDS--advancing global health.

Lancet (London, England)

Piot P, Abdool Karim SS, Hecht R, Legido-Quigley H, Buse K, Stover J, Resch S, Ryckman T, Møgedal S, Dybul M, Goosby E, Watts C, Kilonzo N, McManus J, Sidibé M

Maximizing the Impact of Training Initiatives for Health Professionals in Low-Income Countries: Frameworks, Challenges, and Best Practices.

PLoS medicine

Cancedda C, Farmer PE, Kerry V, Nuthulaganti T, Scott KW, Goosby E, Binagwaho A

Research in action: from AIDS to global health to impact. A symposium in recognition of the scientific contributions of Professor Joep Lange.

Antiviral therapy

Boender TS, Barré-Sinoussi F, Cooper D, Goosby E, Hankins C, Heidenrijk M, de Jong M, Kazatchkine M, Laoye F, Merson M, Reiss P, Rinke de Wit TF, Rogo K, Schellekens O, Schultsz C, Sigaloff KC, Simon J, Zewdie D

NCDs and an outcome-based approach to global health.

Lancet (London, England)

Bollyky TJ, Emanuel EJ, Goosby EP, Satcher D, Shalala DE, Thompson TG

The Medical and Nursing Education Partnership Initiatives.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Goosby EP, von Zinkernagel D

The human resources for health program in Rwanda--new partnership.

The New England journal of medicine

Binagwaho A, Kyamanywa P, Farmer PE, Nuthulaganti T, Umubyeyi B, Nyemazi JP, Mugeni SD, Asiimwe A, Ndagijimana U, Lamphere McPherson H, Ngirabega Jde D, Sliney A, Uwayezu A, Rusanganwa V, Wagner CM, Nutt CT, Eldon-Edington M, Cancedda C, Magaziner IC, Goosby E

Foreword: Global action to reduce HIV stigma and discrimination.

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Sidibé M, Goosby EP

Global Action to reduce HIV stigma and discrimination.

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Anne L Stangl, Cynthia I Grossman, Michel Sidibé, Eric P. Goosby, Cynthia I Grossman, Anne L Stangl, Ingrid T Katz, Annemarie E Ryu, Afiachukwu G Onuegbu, Christina Psaros, Sheri D Weiser, David R Bangsberg, Alexander C Tsai, Anne L Stangl, Jennifer K Lloyd, Laura M Brady, Claire E Holland, Stefan Baral, Gitau Mburu, Mala Ram, Morten Skovdal, David Bitira, Ian Hodgson, Grace W Mwai, Christine Stegling, Janet Seeley, Aparna Jain, Ratana Nuankaew, Nungruthai Mongkholwiboolphol, Arunee Banpabuth, Rachada Tuvinun, Pakprim Oranop na Ayuthaya, Kerry Richter, Li Li, Chunqing Lin, Jihui Guan, Zunyou Wu, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Torsten B Neilands, Francheska Cintrón-Bou, Melissa Marzán-Rodríguez, Axel Santos-Figueroa, Salvador Santiago-Negrón, Domingo Marques, Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera, Laura Nyblade, Aparna Jain, Manal Benkirane, Li Li, Anna-Leena Lohiniva, Roger McLean, Janet M Turan, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Francheska Cintrón-Bou, Jihui Guan, Zachary Kwena, Wendell Thomas, Sofia Gruskin, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Tamar Ezer, Anne Gathumbi, Jonathan Cohen, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Maria L Ekstrand, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Shalini Bharat, Elsa Heylen, Jannette Y Berkley-Patton, Erin Moore, Marcie Berman, Stephen D Simon, Carole Bowe Thompson, Thomas Schleicher, Starlyn M Hawes, John L Christensen, Lynn Carol Miller, Paul Robert Appleby, Charisse Corsbie-Massay, Carlos Gustavo Godoy, Stacy C Marsella, Stephen J Read, Kathryn Risher, Darrin Adams, Bhekie Sithole, Sosthenes Ketende, Caitlin Kennedy, Zandile Mnisi, Xolile Mabusa, Stefan D Baral, Travis Lim, Carla Zelaya, Carl Latkin, Vu Minh Quan, Constantine Frangakis, Tran Viet Ha, Nguyen Le Minh, Vivian Go

An inclusive rights-based foreign policy for health.

Lancet (London, England)

Tucker JD, von Zinkernagel DJ, Goosby EP

Is Option B+ the best choice?

Lancet (London, England)

Goosby EP

US visa law: a clarification.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Goosby EP

Raising the bar: PEPFAR and new paradigms for global health.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Goosby E, Von Zinkernagel D, Holmes C, Haroz D, Walsh T

The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: a story of partnerships and smart investments to turn the tide of the global AIDS pandemic.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Goosby E, Dybul M, Fauci AS, Fauci AA, Fu J, Walsh T, Needle R, Bouey P

The way forward: maximizing our impact through shared responsibility and smart investments.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Goosby E

Community action to end new paediatric HIV infections.

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Michel Sidibé, Eric P. Goosby

HIV treatment as prevention: how scientific discovery occurred and translated rapidly into policy for the global response.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Cohen MS, Holmes C, Padian N, Wolf M, Hirnschall G, Lo YR, Goosby E

PEPFAR's past and future efforts to cut costs, improve efficiency, and increase the impact of global HIV programs.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Holmes CB, Blandford JM, Sangrujee N, Stewart SR, DuBois A, Smith TR, Martin JC, Gavaghan A, Ryan CA, Goosby EP

A call for coordinated and evidence-based action to protect children outside of family care.

Lancet (London, England)

Clay R, CdeBaca L, De Cock KM, Goosby E, Guttmacher A, Jacobs S, Pablos-Mendez A, Polaski S, Sheldon G, Steinberg D

Implementation science for the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Padian NS, Holmes CB, McCoy SI, Lyerla R, Bouey PD, Goosby EP

Public health. Developing health workforce capacity in Africa.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Collins FS, Glass RI, Whitescarver J, Wakefield M, Goosby EP

AIDS funds: prevention.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Holmes CB, Thirumurthy H, Padian NS, Goosby EP

Use of generic antiretroviral agents and cost savings in PEPFAR treatment programs.

JAMA

Holmes CB, Coggin W, Jamieson D, Mihm H, Granich R, Savio P, Hope M, Ryan C, Moloney-Kitts M, Goosby EP, Dybul M

The Chinese free antiretroviral treatment program: challenges and responses.

AIDS (London, England)

Zhang F, Haberer JE, Wang Y, Zhao Y, Ma Y, Zhao D, Yu L, Goosby EP

Needle exchange programs for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infection: epidemiology and policy.

American journal of epidemiology

Vlahov D, Des Jarlais DC, Goosby E, Hollinger PC, Lurie PG, Shriver MD, Strathdee SA

A Methodological Model for Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation: The RARE Program in Public Health.

Field Methods

Robert T. Trotter, Richard H. Needle, Eric Goosby, Christopher Bates, Merrill Singer

Methodologically sound rapid assessment and response: providing timely data for policy development on drug use interventions and HIV prevention.

International Journal of Drug Policy

Richard H Needle, Robert T Trotter, Eric Goosby, Christopher Bates, Deborah Von Zinkernagel

Paronychia in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

Sibel S, Macher A, Goosby E

Early treatment of HIV-1 infection.

Lancet (London, England)

Fauci A, Bartlett JG, Goosby E

A placebo-controlled trial of the immune modulator, lentinan, in HIV-positive patients: a phase I/II trial.

Journal of medicine

Gordon M, Bihari B, Goosby E, Gorter R, Greco M, Guralnik M, Mimura T, Rudinicki V, Wong R, Kaneko Y

The diagnostic laboratory as clinical consultant: public health implications.

American journal of clinical pathology

Macher AM, Goosby EP

Inmate access to postrelease medical care: public health implications.

Archives of family medicine

Macher AM, Goosby EP

Physicians' experience and survival in patients with AIDS.

The New England journal of medicine

Macher AM, Goosby EP

PCR and the misdiagnosis of active tuberculosis.

The New England journal of medicine

Macher A, Goosby E, Beller M

Miles to go before we sleep.

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

Goosby EP

From the Health Resources and Services Administration.

JAMA

Sumaya CV, Macher AM, Bowen GS, Goosby EP

Only a Phone Call Away: Educating Health Care Professionals About HIV/ AIDS.

JAMA

Ciro V. Sumaya, Abe M. Macher, G. Stephen Bowen, Eric P. Goosby

Telephone information services from USPHS.

The American journal of nursing

Macher A, Goosby E, Daniels E, Plotnick J

Educating primary care providers about HIV disease: multidisciplinary interactive mechanisms.

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

Macher A, Goosby E, Barker L, Volberding P, Goldschmidt R, Balano KB, Williams A, Hoenig L, Gould B, Daniels E

States' responses to Title II of the Ryan White CARE Act.

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

McKinney MM, Wieland MK, Bowen GS, Goosby EP, Marconi KM

First year of AIDS services delivery under Title I of the Ryan White CARE Act.

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

Bowen GS, Marconi K, Kohn S, Bailey DM, Goosby EP, Shorter S, Niemcryk S

Recovery of function after hip fracture. The role of social supports.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Cummings SR, Phillips SL, Wheat ME, Black D, Goosby E, Wlodarczyk D, Trafton P, Jergesen H, Winograd CH, Hulley SB