BACKGROUND
Helene Gayle is president and CEO of CARE USA. An expert on health, global development and humanitarian issues, she spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, working primarily on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Gayle then directed the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At CARE, she heads one of the world's premier humanitarian organizations, with programs in nearly 70 countries to end poverty.
Dr. Gayle has been appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Gayle serves on several boards, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ONE, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Institute of Medicine. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and the American Public Health Association. * Care.org

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION
Helene sits calmly in the turbulent Carina Nebula. Carina is Latin for the keel of a ship. Helene holds steady on CARE's course. She is surrounded by her ongoing concerns: Hunger, Relief for Victims of Natural Disasters and Wars, and Care's current campaigns: Maternal Mortality, the Education of Girls, Women's Savings & Loans Assoc., Global Warming and HIV/AIDS.
Named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers," she is enabled by her capacity to work long hours, travel nearly constantly, and still be gracious, optimistic and focused on social activism.