Mark Cloutier, MPP, MPH
President
Mark Cloutier serves as the President of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation and Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Mr. Cloutier, who joined the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 2005, was formerly the Executive Director of Continuum and the principal of Health Commons Group and has over twenty years of experience in the HIV/AIDS and health care arenas.
Mr. Cloutier led Continuum for over three years. Continuum is a community-based, health service organization situated in the Tenderloin in San Francisco that serves people with HIV/AIDS who also face challenges of mental illness, substance addiction and homelessness. Previously, he served as a Legislative Assistant for Senator Barbara Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives, where he focused on HIV/AIDS issues, civil rights, foreign policy and constituents’ immigration issues. Prior to that, Mr. Cloutier served as the Policy Director for a business/consumer coalition seeking fair pharmaceutical drug prices and related intellectual property and trade issues that shape pharmaceutical pricing. Mr. Cloutier is also a bioethicist and has worked with health care organizations, state health governments, the U.S. Congress and national health ministries for over twelve years.
HIV/AIDS has been a major focus of his work in policy, ethics, and non-profit management. He served as Chair of the Board of Project Inform and was on the Board of Continuum before becoming Executive Director. He worked at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation on the Ryan White CARE Act, issues of the uninsured and the relationship between poverty and health. As a consultant to Levi Strauss Foundation, he helped reshape their global HIV/AIDS grant-making.
Mr. Cloutier has published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, Trends in Health Care, Law & Ethics and the book The Future of American Health Care.
Mr. Cloutier has had a lifetime commitment to reducing health disparities in underserved communities, promoting health, improving access to health care, and ensuring effective new medical technologies reach all who might benefit from them. He earned Master of Public Health and Master of Public Policy degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.