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'''{{FULLPAGENAMEPhotoMissing}}'''Peter H. Kilmarx''', M.D.{{MD}}, is an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kilmarx is an expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention who previously served as the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]'s Country Director in Zimbabwe, providing oversight for 30 CDC staff who managed implementation of the U.S. efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. He is now deputy director of the [https://www.fic.nih.gov/ Fogarty International Center].<ref>{{REFweb
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|url=https://www.fic.nih.gov/About/Staff/Pages/deputy-director-bio.aspx
|title=Peter Kilmarx, M.D., Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center
|accessdate=2022-09-12
}}</ref>
==Education==* [https://home.dartmouth.edu/ Dartmouth College]: B.A.{{BA}}* [https://www.brown.edu Brown University]: M.D.{{MD}}* [[Johns_Hopkins_Bloomberg_School_of_Public_Health| Johns Hopkins]]: Public Health<refname="hopkins2017">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/hopkins_medicine_magazine/class_notes/spring-summer-2017/admiral-of-public-health
|title=Admiral of Public Health
|last=Grauer
|first=Neil A
|init=NA
|publisher=Hopkins Medicine
|date=2017
|accessdate=2022-09-12
}}</ref>
==Adult life==
Kilmarx joined the [https://www.peacecorps.gov/ Peace Corp] and served in Africa. He joined the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] in 1995,<ref name="hopkins2017" /> where he served as Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Kilmarx is substantially responsible for the promotion of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by the [[CDC]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://twitter.com/cutfraud/status/1557881676939907078
|title=Circumcision is a fraud
|last=Kilmarx
|first=Peter
|init=
|website=Twitter
|date=2018-08-31
|accessdate=2022-09-14
}}</ref> There is substantial evidence that Kilmarx holds a high degree of [[bias]] in favor of [[circumcision]].
Fish et al. (2020) identify Kilmarx as a major architect of the CDC's erroneous circumcision promotion policy with its racist orientation.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fish
|first=Max
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|author-link=Max Fish
|last2=Shavisi
|first2=Ariane
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|last3=Gwaambuka
|first3=Tatenda
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|last4=Tangwa
|first4=Godfrey B.
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|last5=Ncayiyana
|first5=Daniel
|init5=
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|last6=Earp
|first6=Brian D.
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|author6-link=Brian D. Earp
|etal=no
|title=A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men.
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|journal=Dev World Bioeth
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|date=2021-12
|volume=21
|issue=4
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|page=
|pages=211-26
|url=http://circumcisionharm.org/images-circharm.org/Fish%20Earp%20New%20Tuskegee%20Dev%20World%20Bioeth%202020.pdf
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|pubmedID=32909369
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|DOI=10.1111/dewb.12285
|accessdate=2022-09-27
}}</ref>
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Kilmarx is a very active writer. He is listed as as author or co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Peter+Kilmarx 121 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. Some are very pro-circumcision.
* {{REFjournal
|last=Smith
|first=Dawn K.
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Smith
|first2=Allan
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Kilmarx
|first3=Peter H.
|init3=
|author3-link=Peter Kilmarx
|etal=yes
|title=Male circumcision in the United States for the prevention of HIV infection and other adverse health outcomes: report from a CDC consultation
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|language=
|journal=Public Health Rep
|location=
|date=2010-01
|volume=125 Suppl 1(Suppl 1)
|issue=
|article=
|page=
|pages=72-82
|url=
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=20408390
|pubmedCID=2788411
|DOI=10.1177/00333549101250S110
|accessdate=2022-09-18
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Clark
|first=Sarah J.
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|author-link=
|last2=Kilmarx
|first2=Peter H.
|init2=
|author2-link=Peter Kilmarx
|last3=Kretsinger
|first3=Katrina
|init3=
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Coverage of newborn and adult male circumcision varies among public and private US payers despite health benefits
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|language=
|journal=Health Aff (Millwood).
|location=
|date=2011-12
|volume=30
|issue=12
|article=
|page=
|pages=2355-61
|url=
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|quote=
|pubmedID=22147864
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0776
|accessdate=2022-09-18
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Carbery
|first=Baevin
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|last2=Zhu
|first2=Julia
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|last3=Gust
|first3=Deborah A.
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Chen
|first4=Robert T.
|init4=
|author4-link=
|last5=Kretsinger
|first5=Katrina
|init5=
|author5-link=
|last6=Kilmarx
|first6=Peter H.
|init6=
|author6-link=Peter Kilmarx
|etal=no
|title=Need for physician education on the benefits and risks of male circumcision in the United States
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=AIDS Educ Prev.
|location=
|date=2012-08
|volume=24
|issue=4
|article=
|page=
|pages=377-87
|url=
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|quote=
|pubmedID=22827906
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1521/aeap.2012.24.4.377
|accessdate=2022-09-18
}}
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