[1][2] Prior to working at Human Rights Watch, he worked for more than 15 years conducting research, designing programs, and evaluating interventions related to HIV, hepatitis, malaria and guinea worm eradication, for a wide variety of organizations including: the Peace Corps, the Carter Center, Family Health International, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[2][3] Joseph Amon grew up in New Jersey and obtained an undergraduate degree in 1991 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts[citation needed].
[2] At Human Rights Watch, Amon has worked on a wide range of issues including access to medicines, the rights of prisoners and migrants to access health care, unproven AIDS 'cures', and human rights abuses associated with infectious disease outbreaks and multi-drug resistant TB and published via opinion pieces and peer-reviewed medical papers (see References and External links.
He is a member of the UNAIDS reference group on HIV and Human Rights, and co-founded the TB and Human Rights Task Force Archived 16 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine under the STOP TB Partnership Forum.
In addition to his work at Human Rights Watch, Amon is an Associate in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and was a visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs/ Sciences Po.