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ALLEN A. HERMAN, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Herman is a native South African and an experienced consultant in health care, public health and Epidemiology. Most recently he spent eight years as the foundation Dean of the National School of Public Health of the Republic of South Africa. Allen was the architect and designer of the first e-learning Masters degree program in Public Health in Africa. He designed and developed the computing, physical and virtual infrastructure of the e-learning program at the National School of Public Health, coordinated the development of the two-year Masters degree program, and created both the Epidemiology and Biostatistics curricula. This program served students in twenty-six countries across Africa. Additionally, Allen helped develop the first e-learning program in HIV/AIDS Management in the World of Work. Now in its fifth year this one-year certificate program identified managers at all levels in the workplace and still graduates more than 200 students each year.

Allen has extensive experience in developing large-scale research projects in the fields of health services research, mother and child health, AIDS, cancer and mental health. He developed and led research projects in a number of states and the District of Columbia, in Scandinavia and Africa. He has written extensively on the role of race, social identity and economic status on the health of populations.

His work in HIV/AIDS included being the principal international advisor to the Hon. Ronald V. Dellums during his term as Chairman of the U.S. Presidential Committee on HIV/AIDS. Allen also advised the South African National Defense Force and helped bring a substantial antiretroviral treatment program to the South African military. The treatment program was developed in partnership with the United States Department of Defense and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health

Allen graduated in Medicine from the University of Natal in 1977 and completed his doctoral work in Epidemiology at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1989. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University.