Dr Reynold Washington was recently designated as the Project Director for the US $ 21.7 milllion USAID funded Samastha project in Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh. He also holds an adjunct faculty positions with St John’s Medical College (Professor: Infectious Diseases – St John’s Research Institute) and the University of Manitoba (Associate Professor: Community Health Sciences) and the position of Director and Trustee, at the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT). 
Dr Reynold Washington is an alumnus from batch 1982. He completed his rural bond service in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and returned to St John’s, department of Community Health.
He has more than a decade of practical field experience in public health and specifically in HIV/AIDS prevention and care programming in various capacities as technical advisor and consultant with WHO (1997, 2004-5), the India-Canada Collaborative HIV/AIDS Project (ICHAP) (2002-2004); the AIDS Prevention and Control Project (APAC) (1997-2004); the DANIDA Blindness Prevention and Control Program (1995-1999); the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS); and the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
Dr. Washington has had a key role in designing and implementing community based services for STI and HIV care and surveys such as the “integrated behavioral and biological assessments” (IBBA) among female sex workers, MSM and transgender populations and the general population.
He was a co-Principal Investigator for the phase III clinical trial of cellulose sulphate as a vaginal microcide, and is a co-principal investigator on a number of other HIV related research projects including one on mathematical modeling and cost-effectiveness of HIV interventions in India.
Under the aegis of the USAID and Global Fund projects, he has been instrumental in expanding and establishing care and support services for people living with HIV in Karnataka, Maharashtra and coastal Andhra Pradesh
