Health Action AIDS

Health Action AIDS Campaign Advisors

Executive Committee

Holly Atkinson, MD
President, Physicians for Human Rights;
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Co-Director, Advancing Idealism in Medicine Program
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine;
Assistant Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Donald S. Burke, MD
Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
Director, Vaccine Research Center
University of Pittsburgh
Director and Principal Investigator of AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit
Center for Immunization Research;
Professor of International Health, Epidemiology, and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

James W. Curran, MD, MPH
Dean, Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Founding Director, Partners in Health;
Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
Brigham and Women's Hospital;
Co-Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
Harvard Medical School

Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University

Helene Gayle, MD, MPH
President, CEO
CARE

Eric Goosby, MD
Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer
Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

Ashley T. Haase, MD
Regents' Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology;
Director, Minnesota Division, Great Lakes Regional Center for AIDS Research University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

King Holmes, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and
Director, Center for AIDS and STDs
University of Washington

William Holzemer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs
University of California, San Francisco;
Director, WHO Collaborating Center, Department of Community Systems;
Director, International HIV/AIDS Nursing Research Network

Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
Brigham and Women's Hospital;
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health;
Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Mark Kline, MD
Director, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative;
Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Section of Retrovirology
Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital

Mathilde Krim, PhD
Founding Chairman and Chairman of the Board
American Foundation for AIDS Research

Peter Lamptey, MD, DrPH
President, Institute for HIV/AIDS Family Health International

Kenneth Mayer, MD
Director, Brown University AIDS Program;
Professor of Medicine and Community Health
Brown Medical School

Helen Miramontes, RN, MSN, FAAN
HIV/AIDS Consultant

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Partners In Health;
Assistant Professor, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown Medical School;
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases
The Miriam Hospital

Julius B. Richmond, MD
Former US Surgeon General;
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus
Harvard Medical School

Allan Rosenfield, MD
Dean Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

Linda H. Scruggs
Deputy Director of Programs AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families

Paul Volberding, MD
Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chair of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco;
Chief, Medical Service SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center;
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research

Bruce Walker, MD
Professor and Chair, Division of AIDS
Harvard Medical School

Other Advisors

Kimberly Adams Tufts, ND, WHNP, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences

Lisa Adams, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease and International Health
Coordinator, Global Health Initiative Dartmouth Medical School

Monisha Arya, MD, MPH
Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Lucy Atkin
Margaret Sanger Center International at
Planned Parenthood of New York City

Carol J. Baker, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology and Head, Section for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

Lucy Bradley-Springer, PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN
Director, Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center;
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado Health Science Center

Allan Brandt, PhD
Kass Professor of the History of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Robert Carroll, PhD, RN, ACRN, MN
Washington State Coordinator, Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center;
Secretary, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Thomas J. Coates, PhD
Professor of Infectious Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Mardge Cohen, MD
Director, Women’s HIV Research
Cook County Hospital

Kristine Davis, MA, MSN, RN, ARNP
HIV Nurse Specialist
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Nursing

Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Research Fellow, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
Director of Research, The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center Beth Israel Medical Center

Donna Futterman, MD
Director, Adolescent AIDS Program,
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore;
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Jack Geiger, MD, Msci,Hyg, ScD (hon)
Logan Professor of Community Medicine, Emeritus,
City University of New York Medical School

Susan Gennaro, DSN, RN, FAAN
Professor and Co-Director, Center for Health Disparities Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD
Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology;
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research;
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology
University of California, San Francisco

Robert Heimer, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University
Director, Yale office of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program
Director, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core, Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology;
Chief, Division of Women's Health
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Robert Lawrence, MD
Associate Dean, Professional Practice and Programs;
Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jay A. Levy, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine and Head, Laboratory of Tumor and
AIDS Virus Research
University of California, San Francisco

Alan R. Lifson, MD, MPH
Professor, Division of Epidemiology,
University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Richard Marlink, MD
Director, Harvard AIDS Institute;
Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health;
Scientific Director - Care and Treatment, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Mark Mitchnick, MD
Chief Scientific Officer
International Partnership for Microbicides

Pam Norick
Legislative and Policy Consultant on behalf of The International Partnership for Microbicides & The Alliance for Microbicide Development

Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jennifer Okonsky, BSN, APRN, MA
Adult Nurse Practitioner

Nancy Padian, PhD
Director of International Research, AIDS Research Institute;
Director of Women's Global Health Imperative
University of California, San Francisco

Thomas Quinn, MD
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical School;
Senior Investigator, International HIV and STD Section,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Patrick Robinson PhD, RN, ACRN
Executive Assistant Dean
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing

Michael S. Saag, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director, AIDS Outpatient Clinic; and Director, UAB Center for AIDS Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Zena Stein, MA, MB, BCh
Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry Emerita, Columbia University;
Director of International Core, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Valerie E. Stone, MD, MPH
Director, Women's HIV/AIDS Program;
Associate Chief, General Medicine Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital

Bruce Trigg, MD
Medical Director, STD Program
New Mexico Department of Public Health

MaryAnn Vitiello, APRN, MSN, ACRN
Senior Nursing Advisor, International Training & Education Center on HIV
University of Washington;
Chair, International Special Committee, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Deborah von Zinkernagel, RN, MS, SM
Program Development Consultant
Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

Ronald Waldman, MD, MPH
Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health
Professor, Clinical Population and Family Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Adele Webb, PhD, RN, ACRN
FNAP, FAAN
Executive Director
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Melinda Williamson, BSN, MSN
Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
Whitman Walker Clinic;
Founder, Let’s Talk About It