Robert C. Bailey is an American epidemiologist and professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health.
He is also an adjunct professor in UIC's Department of Anthropology, a research associate at Chicago's Field Museum, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
[4][5][6] In particular, he is known for serving as the principal investigator for a randomized controlled trial of circumcision to prevent the transmission of HIV in Kisumu, Kenya.
The trial was stopped early in December 2006, because its results showed that circumcision significantly reduced the risk of HIV infection.
[1][7][8] He subsequently helped design Kenya's circumcision program as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy.