SAN FRANCISCO -- President Obama today appointed Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco's top HIV public health administrator, to head the Offi...
Colfax will be responsible for carrying out Obama's National AIDS Strategy, announced last year, which is focused on reducing new HIV infections, increasing access and adherence to treatment, and addressing HIV-related health disparities, especially among minority groups.
"Grant's expertise will be key as we continue to face serious challenges and take bold steps to meet them," Obama said in a statement. "I look forward to his leadership in the months and years to come."
In San Francisco, Colfax was director of HIV prevention and research with the public health department, and for the past several years he worked in the outpatient HIV/AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. He did much of his clinical training caring for HIV/AIDS patients in San Francisco General's Ward 5A, the first inpatient HIV program in the country.
In recent years, Colfax has been leading a local and national push toward early treatment of HIV patients, both to improve the health of infected individuals and to help prevent new infections.
Replacing him is Tracey Packer, deputy director of HIV prevention in the public health department.
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