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In its April 16th issue, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the nation’s Top 100 Agents of Change, including leaders, policymakers, writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, and selected Mailman School of Public Health’s Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH '91, professor of clinical Epidemiology and director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) to the list for her work as a “global-health visionary who is fighting AIDS one family at a time.”

The Magazine highlights Dr. El-Sadr’s work as an infectious-disease specialist and, in particular, her pioneering model for the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, noting that her work is “centered on working with families and their social networks rather than just dispensing medicines.” As director of ICAP at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, she oversees 900 sites in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. This past September, Dr. El-Sadr was also named one of the 2008 MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Rolling Stone quotes one of Dr. El-Sadr’s colleagues, Donald Abrams of the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, "Wafaa is the closest I'll ever come to knowing a saint."

At the top of the Rolling Stone’s List of 100 Agents of Change is President Obama. Among the others named for their “power of ideas and innovation,” are Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Paul Krugman, Bono, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Sean Penn.

Read the Rolling Stone article on Dr. El-Sadr.