Jean William Pape

Jean W. Pape is Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is the Director of GHESKIO in Haiti, the first institution in the developing world dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Under Pape's leadership, GHESKIO works with the Haitian Government to provide health care and humanitarian support to Haiti’s most vulnerable populations. As an international research center of excellence, it seeks to improve treatment and prevention strategies in resource-poor settings, and it is building Haiti’s public health system by training the next generation of healthcare workers. Pape is also Principal Investigator of the GHESKIO Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) and PEPFAR program. His innovations in research and treatment for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diarrhea have saved countless lives and served as a model for public health workers worldwide.

He graduated from Cornell University in 1975 and after postgraduate work in infectious diseases he decided to return to practice in his native Haiti while also joining the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College.