1980s

Howard S. Jaffe, M.D. ’82, is president of the Gilead Foundation and a member of Gilead’s senior management team. Gilead is a nonprofit that seeks to improve the health and well-being of underserved communities around the world through expanding access to HIV and hepatitis B education, outreach, prevention, and health services. He has been a member of the management team since 1991, serving in such roles as chief medical officer and senior vice president for drug development. Prior to joining Gilead, Jaffe was director of clinical research and cytokine project team leader at Genentech.

From 2002 to 2004, he served as research director at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Jaffe is a former faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, and has served as an attending physician in internal medicine at San Francisco General Hospital.