Helene D. Gayle, M.D. was the third child born of five children in Buffalo New York to her parents. Mom and Dad were influential and played a major role in young Helene's life. Her mother was a psychiatric social worker and her father an entrepreneur. She was raised during the Civil Rights era and became a leader early on as the leader of the Black Student union in high school. She went on to obtain her psychology degree from Barnard University in 1976, then pursued and earned her medical degree from University of Penn in 1981. She entered the epidemiology training program at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) after acceptance and studied the AIDS virus. She became the coordinator of the AIDS agency while there and traveled to Africa and Asia to study the effects AIDS had on a variety of people. She is the president and CEO of Care USA, a charitable organization that fights global poverty. Care is known for helping to provide emergency assistance to victims and survivors of war and natural disasters. Care is dedicated to helping these individuals get their lives back on track. She recently received the Ethics Advocate Award on December 9,2009. She gained this honor because of her consistent work in aiding women, minorities, and the overlooked. Helene also took initiative to combat global poverty, inequality, and injustice. CARE is setting up added emergency teams to go out to the city of Port-au-Prince help the victims of the most devastating earthquake which left thousands of individuals homeless and ill. A sister like this shows us all that a true woman's work is never finished until she takes her last breath.
(care.org)
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