Health Action AIDS

Health Action AIDS Campaign Advisors

Executive Committee

Holly Atkinson, MD
Past President, Physicians for Human Rights;
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

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;
Associate Chief, Division of Global Health Equality,
Brigham and Women's Hospital;
Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing,
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing,
Case Western Reserve University

Helene Gayle, MD, MPH
President and CEO,
CARE

Eric P. Goosby, MD
CEO and Chief Medical Officer,
Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation;
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco

Ashley T. Haase, MD
Regents' Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology,
Professor, Department of Medicine,
University of Minnesota

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,
Lillian & Dudley Aldous Endowed Chair in Nursing Sciences,
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
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights,
Harvard School of Public Health;
Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Chief, Division of Global Health Equity,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

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,
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

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

Kenneth H. Mayer, MD
Professor of Medicine and Community Health,
Brown University;
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine,
Miriam Hospital;
Medical Research Director, Fenway Community Health

Helen Miramontes, RN, MSN, FAAN
Clinical Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing,
University of California, San Francisco;
HIV/AIDS Consultant

Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Partners In Health;
Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice Assistant Professor,
Harvard Medical School Division of Global Health Equity,
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

Linda H. Scruggs
Director of Programs,
AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and 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 D. Walker, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Director, Partner AIDS Research Center;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research

Other Advisors

Kimberly Adams Tufts, DNP, WHNP-BC, FAAN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing,
Old Dominion University

Lisa V. Adams, MD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease and International Health,
Dartmouth Medical School;
Coordinator, Global Health Initiative, John Sloan Dickey Center,
Dartmouth College

Monisha Arya, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Section of Infectious Diseases,
Baylor College of Medicine

Lucille C. Atkin, PhD
Co-Director,
Colibri Consulting

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
Editor, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC);
Principal Investigator and Director,
Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center;
Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing,
University of Colorado Denver

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

Robert T. Carroll, PhD (c), RN, ACRN
Director, Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center,
University of Washington

Thomas J. Coates, PhD
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute;
Director, UCLA Program in Global Health;
Professor of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles

Mardge Cohen, MD
Medical Director,
Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment;
Professor of Medicine,
Rush Medical College

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

Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD
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, Beth Israel Medical Center

Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH         
Director of New Initiatives,
Health Alliance International;
Clinical Assistant Professor,
University of Washington

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 S. Lawrence, MD
The Center for a Livable Future Professor,
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy and International Health,
Director, Center for a Livable Future,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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

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

Richard Marlink, MD
Professor of Public Health,
Harvard School of Public Health;
Vice President, Technical Implementation,
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Mark Mitchnick, MD
Chief Scientific Officer,
International Partnership for Microbicides

Pam Norick
Legislative and Policy Consultant,
The International Partnership for Microbicides
The Alliance for Microbicide Development

Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Associates,
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Director, Office of International Programs, Division of AIDS,
Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Okonsky, BSN, APRN, MA
Adult Nurse Practitioner,
University of California, San Francisco

Nancy Padian, PhD
Distinguished Fellow and Executive Director, Women's Health Imperative, RTI;
Director of Prevention, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation;
Adjunct Professor,
University of California Berkeley School of Public Health

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
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Department of Behavioral Health Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Nursing

Michael S. Saag, MD
Jim Straley Chair in AIDS Research,
Director, Division of Infectious Disease and,
The William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine,
Director, Center for AIDS Research,
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jonathon Simon, MPH, DSc        
Chair of International Health,
Director, Center for International Health and Development,
Boston University School of Public Health

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

Charles Steinberg, MD
Head of Training at Infectious Disease Institute (IDI), Uganda;
Beacon Clinic HIV/AIDS

Valerie E. Stone, MD, MPH
Director, Women's HIV/AIDS Program,
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

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

MaryAnn Vitiello, MSN, APN-BC
Senior Nursing Advisor,
International Training and Education Center on HIV (ITECH),
University of Washington;
Chair, International Special Committee, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Deborah von Zinkernagel, RN, MS, SM
Vice President for Policy and Senior Clinical Expert,
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