• H. Keith H. Brodie, MD, President Emeritus, Duke University *
• Gail H. Cassell, PhD, Vice President-Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly Company *
• Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., PhD USN (ret.), Past Chairman of Joint Chiefs; former US Ambassador to Great Britain
• Manfred Dietrich, MD, Professor, Universities of Hamburg and Ulm and Director Emeritus, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Diseases, Hamburg, Germany
• Hon. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, JD, U.S. Senator, past president American Red Cross
• Edward B. Fort, DEd, Chancellor Emeritus, N.C. A&T University
• Amb. R. Michael Jackson, HM Diplomatic Service, ret.
• Hon. Martin Lancaster (CAPT, USNR ret.), President, N.C. Community Colleges, former member U.S. Congress
• Floyd J. Malveaux, MD, PhD, Dean, School of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
• Harley W. Moon, DVM, PhD, Professor and Director Emeritus, National Animal Disease Center and the Plum Island Research Center of the USDA+
• Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD, MD (h.c.), Dean Emeritus, UC-Davis, former director, Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC *
• J. Dennis O'Connor, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland, former provost, Smithsonian Institution and UNC-Chapel Hill and former president, University of Pittsburgh
• Major Matthew Puglisi, (USMC Reserves), Sect. Asst. Dir., American Legion
• Adm. J. Paul Reason, USN (ret.), former Commander, Atlantic Fleet
• William M. Sullivan, JD, former CEO, Burroughs Wellcome Pharmaceuticals
• Raymond A. Tennant, PhD, National Toxicology Program, NIEHS
• Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA (ret.), CEO, MPRI, former Army Chief of Staff
• CAPT Robert G. Walter, DDS, USN (ret.) former Commanding Officer, Naval Medical Research Institute
• James B. Wyngaarden, MD, former Director, National Institutes of Health, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences +*

Special Advisors:
William C. Friday, JD, President Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Lt.Col. James G. Zumwalt, JD (USMC ret.), Col. Robinson O. Everett (USAFR ret.), JD, Chief Judge, US Military Court of Appeals, Professor of Law, Duke University and UNC-CH

Emeriti Councilors:
Lt. Gen. John R. Thurman III USA (dec.)