Dr. W. Paul McKinney is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, where he also serves as Director of the Clinical Investigation Sciences graduate program and of the Center for Health Hazards Preparedness. His earlier experience in the field of public health includes service as an Epidemiology Intelligence Service officer with the Centers for Disease Control from 1981-83. Previous academic appointments included Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1983-90, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1990-95, and V.V. Cooke Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Louisville from 1995 until 2005, when he transitioned to the university’s newly established public health school.

In 1999, Dr. McKinney was chosen as a U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow in Washington, DC where his focus was upon development of policy regarding the threat of bioterrorism against the United States. Since 1998, he has been a liaison member of the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), representing the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. He served as co-director of the University of Louisville’s (UL) International Travel Clinic from 1996 to 2012. From 2003-08, he was Project Director for the UL Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). He then was Co-Principal Investigator of the Pandemic Planning and Preparedness Program, funded by the Department of Homeland Security through the National Institute for Hometown Security, from 2009-12. From 2013-14, he was the PI on a funded project through the Kentucky Department for Public Health to establish Crisis Standards of Care in the Commonwealth.

From 2014 to the present, he has been the local performance site director for Kentucky of the HRSA-funded Public Health Training Center, in associate with Emory University. Beginning in 2016 through the present, he has also collaborated with Emory on the NIEHS-funded Worker Training Program, supporting reduction in the risk of transmitting major pathogens in the occupational setting.
Dr. McKinney is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
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