Attend to learn more about public health and ways to pursue careers in this discipline. Dr. James Thomas is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at UNC-CH Gillings School of Global Public Health and Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project with Carolina Population Center. You will hear about Dr. Thomas' career path and his education and experience that prepared him for multiple roles during his career in public health.

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**Dr. Thomas will also meet individually with students for one-on-one conversations on Tuesday, February 2. Space is limited so sign up today!

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About Dr. Thomas

Dr. James Thomas has over 30 years experience working in the field of public health. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from the University of California, Davis, and then masters and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from UCLA. Over the course of his career, Dr. Thomas has been a policy advisor, nutritionist, program implementer, professor, researcher, technical advisor, manager, and founder of two nonprofit organizations. He has lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya, and has worked in more than two dozen countries of Africa and Asia. As a professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, his principal interests are in the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, and public health ethics and human rights. In addition to his more than 80 scholarly articles, he was an editor and author of a textbook on epidemiologic methods in the study of infectious diseases, and principal author of the American Public Health Association’s Code of Ethics. As Director of the USAID funded MEASURE Evaluation Project, Dr. Thomas is leading a global team that is advancing the capacity of countries and communities to monitor their epidemics and evaluate their programs to control them. Dr. Thomas brings to this effort a particular interest in complexity science and systems thinking. Two examples from his own work are organizational network analysis to improve coordination of disease control efforts, and the evaluation of structural interventions.