| Summary: | Epidemiologist and public health administrator Dr. Helene D. Gayle was born on August 16, 1955, in Buffalo, New York. She earned her B.S. in psychology from Barnard College in 1976, then attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and received her master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Gayle was selected to enter the epidemiology training program at Atlanta's Center for Disease Control in 1984. By 2001, she was director of the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. In 2001, Gayle joined the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation as director of the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program. At the same time, she was named assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. In 2006, Gayle was chosen as the new president and CEO of CARE. In 2014, Forbes listed Gayle as the seventy-eighth most powerful woman in the world.
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