Health News
2006-06-22
AIDS Action
Council names deputy director
The AIDS Action
Council, a national AIDS advocacy organization that
represents nearly 100 AIDS and health care agencies
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The AIDS Action
Council, a national AIDS advocacy organization that
represents nearly 100 AIDS and health care agencies
throughout the country, this week appointed Ronald S.
Johnson as the agency’s deputy director.
Johnson, currently the associate executive director at New
York City’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis,
will join AAC in September. He will oversee the public
policy and government affairs staff and functions at
the organization. Johnson joined GMHC in 1997 and directs
the agency’s public policy and advocacy
functions. Prior to his work at GMHC, Johnson served
as the citywide coordinator for AIDS policy for New York
City and as the city’s cochair of the HIV
Health and Human Services Planning Council, which
helps distribute federal Ryan White AIDS Funds. He also
served as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on
HIV/AIDS. “I have admired Ronald’s work
for many years,” said AAC executive director
Rebecca Haag in a statement. “We already have a
strong team doing incredible work in policy and
government, and Ronald will provide strategic
direction and oversight. He is a superb analyst, presenter,
advocate, and collaborator and has a track record of
creating and managing high-performance teams. He
shares my vision that those of us working in HIV must
enact a more horizontal strategy and create
partnerships with those engaged in other areas of health
care, across disabilities, and including related
businesses and institutions.” For more
information on AAC, go online to www.aidsaction.org. (The
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