Preventing AIDS Community-Science Collaborations

Bart K. Aoki, PhD, is associate director and coordinator, Social-Behavioral and Health Sciences Research at the Universitywide AIDS Research Program, University of California, Office of the President Dante Brimer was a core staff interviewer and outreach worker on the UFO field site team. He was a founding member of The Horribles, a San Francisco suit- and tie-clad punk posse, still infamous among Haight-Ashbury street youths. Also known as the Les Paul-slinging-guitar-playing heartthrob of the rock band "Mack Truck," Dante played to packed audiences all over town, and made All Right!!! the band's first CD on Wear It Low Records. Known to his friends as El Dante, his fans as Dante Mack, and to his family as Benjamin Brimer III, he stole hearts and won laughs everywhere he went. A fine human being, a brilliant problem solver, and a young man with an intellect and intuition as big as his heart, Dante was a pure joy. We miss him more than words can say Ross F. Conner, PhD, is the director of the Center for Community Health Research, University of California, Irvine, and an associate professor, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design in the School of Social Ecology at UCI Carla Dillard-Smith, MPA, is deputy and research director of the California Prostitute Education Program (CAL-PEP) Heather Edney-Meschery served as the executive director of the Santa Cruz County Needle Exchange Program for thirteen years. She is also the managing editor of Junkphood Bonnie Faigeles was senior statistician at UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS). Currently, Ms. Faigeles is a student at the UCSF School of Nursing Olga Grinstead, PhD, MPH, is an adjunct associate professor at UCSF School of Medicine and Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS). Dr. Grinstead is also a licensed clinical psychologist Lisa M. Krieger is an award-winning journalist in the San Francisco Bay area, where for seventeen years she has covered medical news for The San Francisco Examiner and the San Jose Mercury News Gloria Lockett is founder and executive director of the California Prostitute Education Program (CAL-PEP) Rachel McLean, BS. In memory of the clients and colleagues that she has lost to overdose, Ms. McLean founded the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education (DOPE) Project Andrew Moss, PhD, is a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and professor of medicine at UCSF Roger K. Myrick, PhD, is the senior prevention evaluation scientist at the Universitywide AIDS Research Program, Office of the President, University of California Lisa Netherland is manager for HIV Prevention Services for the San Mateo County Health Services Agency in California Kristen Ochoa is a medical student at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine Geraldine Oliva, MD, MPH, is an adjunct associate professor of family and community medicine, a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco, and the director of the Family Health Outcomes Project (FHOP Jennifer Rienks, MS, PhD(c), is an analyst with the Family Health Outcomes Project in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Fernando Sanudo is the cofounder of the Vista Community Clinic Health Promotion Center Paul Simon, MD, MPH, is Director, Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and an adjunct associated professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health Steve Truax, PhD, is a research psychologist who works in basic and applied research in university and applied settings in mental and general health. Currently, he is the chief of the HIV Prevention Research and Evaluation Section at the California Department of Health, Office of AIDS Barry Zack, MPH, is the executive director of CenterforceBowser, Benjamin P. is the author of 'Preventing AIDS Community-Science Collaborations', published 2004 under ISBN 9780789012470 and ISBN 0789012472.