Academy for Educational Development
AED STAFF RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS Washington, D.C., May 21, 2010 —Three of AED’s top health experts have been appointed to prestigious national and international councils to advise policymakers on issues related to HIV/AIDS, malaria and health behavior. “AED’s commitment to mitigating the impact of infectious disease and promoting healthy behaviors is well respected in the public health community,” said AED President Stephen F. Moseley. “Cornelius Baker, Halima Mwenesi, and Sidney Schuler are all leaders in their fields, and we are delighted that their expertise will inform policy moving forward.” Cornelius Baker Appointed to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Cornelius Baker, senior communications advisor with the AED Center on AIDS & Community Health, has been appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. With the Secretary of Health and Human Services, this council advises, informs, and recommends actions to the president on both U.S. and global HIV/AIDS policy issues, including the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Baker directs the HIV Vaccine Research Education Initiative, which is funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and which provides information, resources, and support so that opinion leaders are better equipped to inform their communities about HIV vaccine research. He is the former executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition. Dr. Halima A. Mwenesi Elected to the Roll Back Malaria Board Dr. Halima A. Mwenesi, AED's director of Public Health Policy Initiatives and senior malaria advisor, has been elected to the Roll Back Malaria Board as the Member for the Northern NGO constituency. Involved in malaria prevention activities for more than 20 years, Dr. Mwenesi has worked at local, national, regional, and global levels with public, commercial, and NGO institutions. Her expertise in malaria prevention is regularly called upon by WHO and other international health organizations. Dr. Mwenesi currently leads a global effort funded by the Gates Foundation to understand the impact of taxes, tariffs, and non-tariff barriers on the availability of anti-malarial commodities and to design an advocacy strategy to reduce these barriers and increase access to anti-malarials. Dr. Sidney R. Schuler to Serve on NIH Center for Scientific Review Dr. Sidney R. Schuler, founder and director of the Empowerment of Women Research Project, in the AED Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group, has accepted an invitation to serve on the National Institute of Health’s Center for Scientific Review. As a member of the “Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section,” Schuler will contribute to the national biomedical research effort by reviewing and making recommendations on grant applications submitted to the NIH and by surveying the status of research in her field. Schuler, a social anthropologist trained at Harvard University, is a research and gender advisor with AED’s Communication for Change (C-Change) Project. She has extensive research experience on issues of gender in international health and development, and is especially known for her work in conceptualizing and measuring women’s empowerment and for her field studies documenting how reproductive health policies and programs are perceived by intended beneficiaries. AED is a nonprofit organization working globally to create enduring solutions to critical problems in health, education, social and economic development. Collaborating with partners throughout the world, AED develops and implements ideas that change lives through more than 300 programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and more than 150 countries. ### |
