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Bay Area Reporter - July 6, 2006
Matthew S. Bajko, m.bajko@ebar.com
The foundation said on June 29 it had hired Judy Auerbach, Ph.D., as its new deputy executive director for science and public policy. She is leaving the Foundation for AIDS Research as vice president for public policy and program development and will begin her new role at SFAF in mid-September.
"I am honored and delighted to be joining the SF AIDS Foundation at this important time. There are exciting developments in novel HIV treatment and prevention strategies, and the SF AIDS Foundation can play a key role in translating those discoveries into practical use in communities still hard-hit by the epidemic," Auerbach said in a statement.
Auerbach, 49, will make $175,000 in the post. A straight woman in a long-term, non-married partnership, she is the second high-level staffer to join the AIDS foundation since it named Mark Cloutier as its executive director last spring. Steven Tierney became SFAF's deputy director of programs and services in December. Cloutier and Tierney are openly gay.
"Dr. Auerbach's breadth of work at the National Institutes of Health as a social scientist, as well as her domestic and global policy successes at amfAR, makes her a great addition to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. As the deputy executive director, Judy's passion and intellect will assist the foundation in its public policy efforts to focus on new HIV treatments and technologies such as microbicides, and cutting-edge prevention policy," said Cloutier in a statement announcing the hire.
Prior to joining amfAR Auerbach, a San Francisco native, directed AIDS behavioral and social science programs in the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health. In 1998 under President Clinton she served as the assistant director for social and behavioral science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Auerbach worked as a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in the early 1990s, where she was also study director for the Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in AIDS Research. She co-edited that committee's 1994 report, "AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach."
In 1986 Auerbach received her doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. An author of a number of books and scholarly articles, she serves on many editorial boards and advisory groups.
Dr. Eric Goosby, chief executive officer and chief medical officer of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, SFAF's international affiliate, said Auerbach's past leadership at NIH and amfAR and her prominence as a published social scientist and Washington policy maker will bolster SFAF's and Pangaea's lobbying efforts whether in San Francisco, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., or in the global arena.
"Dr. Auerbach knows the value of robust behavioral research data when developing innovative and sustainable programs targeting hard-to-reach populations affected by HIV," stated Goosby.
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