Pangaea Update: In 2007 and early 2008 Pangaea has added a number of key staff members and consultants to augment our global team working on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention projects. Follow the links below to press releases that tell you more about our new additions. Also included in this update is a summary of 2007 projects, strategic initiatives for 2008 and a listing of senior staff and consultants. For more information visit www.pgaf.org. Strategic Initiatives for 2008Focusing on Underserved PopulationsThe coming year holds exciting prospects for Pangaea. We will be continuing our work with the Clinton Foundation in China and the Ukraine. In addition we will be launching the following new initiatives: - Treatment and treatment-based prevention for women, girls, and adolescents — creating a strengthened local HIV/AIDS treatment infrastructure to treat women, adolescents, and girls, including prevention that is linked to treatment.
- Small and medium enterprises - creating an affordable HIV treatment model for workers in small and medium-sized local businesses (SMEs) in resource poor settings.
- Mid-level providers - increasing the capacity of non-physician providers in resource poor settings to meet the growing need for HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
- Injection drug users - creating new models for bringing injection drug users into care for both HIV/AIDS and their underlying addiction.
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Spotlight on New Staff and Consultants2007 Highlights Assisting with National Scale-up of HIV/AIDS TreatmentOver the last six years Pangaea has partnered with the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative to assist national governments in Africa, Asia and the Americas with the design and scale-up of national HIV/AIDS treatment programs. In 2007 we continued this work and expanded our efforts with injection drug use populations in China and Ukraine: ChinaIn China, we have been helping to develop training programs and establish HIV/AIDS clinics in Anhui and Yunnan provinces. In Yunnan, our work with Provincial and local officials has led to comprehensive models of care that reach from urban settings to rural villages, linking maternal child health, TB, and methadone treatment and community-based outreach with HIV treatment capacity. UkraineIn Ukraine, we are helping the Ministry of Health increase access to comprehensive HIV/AIDS and drug treatment -- with injection drug users ("IDUs") as the main target population. Core program components include rapid HIV testing, registration and procurement of methadone, development of an integrated HIV and drug treatment program for IDUs, and training of medical staff. Pangaea Senior StaffEric Goosby, MD, CEO and Chief Medical Officer. Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Former Deputy Director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office and Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at HHS in the Clinton Administration. Mark Cloutier, MPP, MPH, President. Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Former Executive Director of Continuum and the principal of Health Commons Group. Michael Calhoun, JD, Chief Operating Officer. Former Vice President for Strategic Planning and Marketing for the Stanford Hospital and Clinics at Stanford University; Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Dennis Israelski, MD, Medical Director. Clinical Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine; Medical Director, San Mateo County, California AIDS program. Julia Martin, MHSc, Vice President for Programs and Senior Clinical Expert. Previously coordinated the clinical, prevention, and training programs of the Infectious Disease Institute ("IDI") in Kampala, Uganda; Former Coordinator of HIV Prevention Strategies, Applied Research and Knowledge Development for Health Canada Richard Needle, PhD, MPH, Vice President for Special Populations and Senior Project Manager. Former Leader of the Preventing HIV in Drug Using Populations Team for the Global AIDS Program of the CDC. Theogene Rudasingwa, MD, Vice President for Global Affairs and Global Projects Specialist. Former Ambassador to the United States from Rwanda; Former Chief of Staff to the President of Rwanda. Deborah von Zinkernagel, RN, MS, SN, Vice President for Policy and Senior Clinical Expert. Former Deputy Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at HHS; Former Health Policy Analyst for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. ConsultantsMegan Dunbar, DrPH, MPH, Prevention Consultant. Public Health Scientist at RTI International and Women's Global Health Imperative (WGHI). Michael Iskowitz, PhD, Senior Policy and Program Consultant. Former Director of UNAIDS/USA; Former Chief Counsel on Poverty, Disability and Family Policy to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Nancy Padian, PhD, MPH, Senior Prevention Consultant. Executive Director of the Women's Global Health Imperative (WGHI); distinguished fellow at RTI lnternational; faculty member at the University of California (Berkeley and San Francisco). |
