Jeffrey P. Koplan is an American physician and epidemiologist who is the Vice President for Global Health at Emory University.

[2] Koplan was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1998[3] to 2002;[4] he had previously worked at the CDC for more than twenty years, looking into HIV-contaminated blood, as well as the Bhopal disaster.

[5] During his tenure as Director, he fought syphilis,[6] and supervised the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks;[7] before leaving the agency in March 2002.

[1] In the late 1990s, Congress gave the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) $23 million to conduct research on myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as "chronic fatigue syndrome").

After concerns were raised about how these funds were being spent, an investigation was conducted by inspector general June Gibbons Brown.