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HIV / AIDS Section Co-Chairs: Berry Bennet MPH and Bridgett
Rahim-Williams, PhD, MPH, MA Updated: 8/13/11
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Welcome from your HIV/AIDS Section Co-Chairperson!
For those of you who do not know me, I am the Retrovirology Section Chief at the Florida Bureau of Laboratories and a past
co-chair of this section when it was established in August 2006. I am honored to serve again in the same capacity and to share
the chairperson responsibilities with Dr. Bridgett Rahim-Williams, Senior Research Fellow at NIH and Research Assistant Professor
at the University of Florida. Also we are pleased to announce that Sherrie Serpas, Early Intervention Consultant with Bay
CHD is willing to serve as our Membership Coordinator and Dr. Azliyati Azizan, Assistant Professor at USF is willing to assist
in our newsletter updates. However our FPHA members, who selected the HIV/AIDS Section as their primary or secondary interest,
are the ones who keep our section going and it is much appreciated. Clearly
the public health budget restraints and travel restrictions of past years and most likely years to come is inspiring creative
ways for us to maintain our commitment to share HIV related issues and education. We encourage you to frequently access the
FPHA website for the latest on Regional Educational Conferences in your area and to participate whenever possible. In addition,
we would like to use the web page as well as the newsletter to share recent HIV related news and topics that may be of broad
interest to our section membership. If you come across an article that you think would be of interest to our membership and
meets the criteria of either category below, please send it to one of your section officers. We will try to include it in
either the newsletter or web page.
Spotlight (a salute to our membership who have recently published articles or presented oral/poster presentations on HIV/AIDS
related issues, links only please)
Headlines (links to recent HIV/AIDS
related articles and news releases that have a “broad interest” among our membership) 1) Various HIV/AIDS awareness days are summarized
at www.aids.gov/awareness-days 2) What is PrEP?
www.cdc.gov/hiv/prep/?source=govdelivery 3) July 5, 2011 Press Release:
Florida Consortium of HIV/AIDS Research launched at The AIDS Institute (TAI). www.theaidsinstitute.org 4) What is the importance
of “Community Viral Loads”? www.natap.org/2011/CROI/croi_09.htm
Berry Bennett MPH Retrovirology
Section Chief
Florida
Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories 1217 Pearl Street Jacksonville, FL 32202 T:
904-791-1527 Bridgett
Rahim-Williams, PhD, MPH, MA Senior Research Fellow NIH/National Institue on Minority Health & Health Disparities 2 Democracy
Plaza 6707
Democracy Blvd., Buite 800 Bethesda, MD T: 301-594-8427
Research
Assistant Professor Department of Behavioral Science & Community Health University
of Florida Gainesville,
FL
Newsletter Coordinator Azliyati Azizan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of
Global Health College of Public Health University of South Florida 13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC056 Tampa,
Florida 33612-3805 Tel: (813) 974-2079 Fax: (813) 974-8506 aazizan@health.usf.edu
Membership Coordinator Sherrie
Serpas Early Intervention Consultant Bay County Health Department 597 W 11th Street Panama City, Fl 32401 (850) 872-4720 ext 1183
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