Wayne Giles
Dean of the School of Public Health
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Wayne Giles
Dr. Wayne H. Giles is the dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Prior to joining UIC, Giles spent 25 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, the Division of Population Health, and the Division of Adult and Community Health. His portfolio at the CDC included running one of the organization’s most diverse divisions with programmatic and research activities in community health promotion, arthritis, aging, health care utilization, school health, and racial and ethnic disparities in health.
His work has included studies examining the prevalence of hypertension in Africa, clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering agents and studies examining racial differences in the incidence of stroke.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Charles C. Shepard Award in Assessment and Epidemiology and the Jeffrey P. Koplan Award.
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