Lytt Gardner is an epidemiologist with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at CDC, Atlanta. He received a MA degree (1973) and a PhD in epidemiology (1981) from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research at the CDC has concerned evaluating linkage to HIV care and retention in HIV care interventions. Before joining CDC-Atlanta in 1998, he was with CDC-Morgantown (NIOSH), and Department of the Army’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.