Up one levelBill Jenkins Timeline
* Voter registration drive team leader, Mt. Pleasant and Charleston County, South Carolina, 1961
* High school class vice president, 1961-1963
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Georgia, 1964
* Newman Club (Catholic Student organization), Atlanta University Center; Founder, Secretary, Treasurer; 1964-1966
* BA in mathematics from Morehouse College, 1967
* U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 1967-1974 (one of the first African Americans in the Commissioned Corps)
* Statistician Trainee and Statistician (Demography) at U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 1967-1970
* Founder/Editor of DRUM (Black DHEW Employees Newsletter), 1968-1970 - attempted to draw media attention to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
* Vice President of Local 41, AFGE Government Employees Union, 1969
* Mentor, Washington DC Youth Services for Larton Inmates , 1968-1971
* Volunteer with Bureau of Rehabilitation of the National Capitol Area (Private social service agency which services ex-offenders), 1969-1972
* Organized the Minority Concerns Committee (Black Employees Government Group), 1970
* First Deputy E.E.O.O. at the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 1970-1972
* Commendation Medal for Superior Service, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 1972
* MS in Biostatistics from Georgetown University, 1974
* Course Coordinator (Demography), National Center for Health Statistics, RTP NC, 1973-1974
* MPH in Epidemiology from UNC School of Public Health, 1977; became one of the first African American epidemiology PhD students there.
* President of the UNC SPH Black Student Caucus (1975-76) and a founder of the Annual Minority Health Conference
* MPH in Epidemiology from UNC School of Public Health, 1977
* PhD in Epidemiology from UNC School of Public Health, 1983 (one of the first Black PhD epidemiologists in the U.S.)
* Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, 1985
* Postdoctoral Training, Biostatistics, 1986-1987
* Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Division of STD/HIV Prevention: Mathematical Statistician (1980-1987); Chief, Research and Evaluation Statistics Section (1987-1989); Assistant to the Assistant Director for Program Services and Manager of the National Minority Organizations HIV Prevention Program (1989-1991); Supervisory Epidemiologist, Clinical Research Branch (1991-1997)
* Founded Social Health Society (network for Black professionals at CDC in Atlanta)
* Founder/Coordinator Project Imhotep, 1980-1982
* Founded Public Health Sciences Institute, Morehouse College, 1981
* Chair, Social Action Board for First Congregational Church, Atlanta GA, 1983-1985
* Morehouse School of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, 1988-
* Founded Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI), 1991
* Planning committee member for the ACE 1991 annual meeting, “Morbidity/Mortality Gap – Is it Race or Racism?”
* Founding member of the ACE Committee on Minority Affairs (MAC), 1991
* Established MPH program at Morehouse School of Medicine; Interim-Director, 1994-1996
* American College of Epidemiology, Board of Directors, 1994-1996 (I believe that he was the first African American on the ACE BOD)
* Bill Jenkins Scholarship Award, Public Health Sciences Institute, Morehouse College, 1995-
* Board Member and Chair, Friends School of Atlanta, 1995-1999
* Member, Naming Committee, Ministry and Worship Friends Meeting of Atlanta, 1995-1999
* Chair, Statistics in Epidemiology Section, American Statistical Association
* American Public Health Association, Epidemiology Section representative to the APHA Governing Council, 1996-2002
* Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee, member 1996-1999 (helped to obtain President Clinton’s apology for the study)
* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention; Manager, Tuskegee Participants Health Benefits Program Officer, (1995-2003); Manager, Minority Health Activities, Office of the Director (1999-2003)
* American College of Epidemiology, Committee on Minority Affairs, Chair, 1997-1999
* Clerk and member, Fellowship of Friends of African Descent Atlanta GA, 2001- present
* Morehouse College, Research Professor of Public Health Sciences, 2003 –
* Morehouse College, Research Center on Health Disparities, Co-Director 2003-2006, Director 2006-2008
* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2006
* Keynote Address, Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, UNC, 2007
* Abraham Lilienfeld Award from APHA Epidemiology Section, 2009.
* Opening General Session Keynote Speaker, American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2010.
* Senior Scholar, Institute for African American Research, UNC, 2010-2012
* Honorary Doctorate, Medical University of South Carolina, 2011
* CEO, Community Health Analytics, Inc., 2012-current
* Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, 2014-
* Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, 2017-
* Hildrus A. Poindexter Award Lecture, Black Caucus of Health Workers, 2017.
(Photographs, video and audio recordings, tributes, etc., are in the Bill Jenkins collection, https://go.unc.edu/BillJenkins)