AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley

AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley. Still up for grabs, has NOT adopted YET
Actual Title: Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
Presidential Appointment Established: 2003
Duties:

• Coordinate the continuing domestic efforts to reduce the number of new infections in the United States;
  
• Work to coordinate an increasingly integrated approach to the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS; and
  
• Emphasize the domestic and international efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
  

source: http://noisyroom.net/blog/2009/07/22/obamas-czars-listing-update-072209/

Excerpts from:http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/02/26/new-aids-czar-noted-medicaid-geek-widely-praised-advocates

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The White House release cites Crowley's
primary areas of expertise as "Medicaid policy, including Medicaid
prescription drug policies; Medicare policy; and consumer education
and training."

And indeed, those who have worked with
him on these issues were clearly excited, even gushing, about the appointment,
including Robert Greenwald, Director of the Treatment
Access Expansion Project (TAEP).

"I think it's amazing," said
Greenwald. "He is one of the most hardworking, diligent, non-ego-involved
people I've ever worked with, just a good person. I can't even believe
it. He's incredibly plugged into the community."

While Crowley helped to develop the National HIV Testing Day
Campaign during his tenure
at NAPWA, those who have worked closely with him in recent years do
note that prevention is not his main area of expertise.

But Munar, calling Crowley an "instrumental
team player," says he expects that, far from having a deaf ear towards
prevention, Crowley recognizes its importance, will bring in those who
know it well and will talk about it from a health care perspective,
emphasizing a cost-savings paradigm that he believes will resonate well.

http://www.wikio.com/themes/Jeffrey+Crowley

Quote :

In conference calls with AIDS advocates this week, White House Domestic AIDS Czar Jeffrey Crowley
continued to defend the Obama administration’s progress on HIV/AIDS
policy and said that a basic structure for a National AIDS Strategy
should be in place by early 2010. Many advocates were skeptical as to
both the timeline and how much community input will be a part of the
process....