Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS

The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) was a commission formed by President Bill Clinton in 1995 to provide recommendations on the US government's response to the AIDS epidemic. President George W. Bush and Secretary Tommy G. Thompson renewed the Council's charter on July 19, 2001.

History

The Council was not the first Presidential inquiry into HIV. In 1987, Ronald Reagan appointed the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1987–88) to investigate the AIDS epidemic. This was followed by the National Commission on AIDS (1989-1993).

Members

Current members

The council members as of April 2016 are:

Nancy Mahon JD, PACHA Chairperson - Senior Vice President, M.A.C Cosmetics; Global Executive Director, Mac AIDS Fund
David Holtgrave PhD, PACHA Vice-Chair - Professor and Chair, Department of Health, Behavior and Society; John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Ada Adimora MD MPH - Professor, School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeffrey S. Akman MD - Vice President for Health Affairs, George Washington University; Dean, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Oliver Clyde Allen III - Presiding Bishop, United Progressive Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches, Atlanta, Georgia
Lucy A. Bradley-Springer PhD RN ACRN FAAN - Editor, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Associate Pressor Emerita, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Gina M. Brown MSW - Planning Council Co-ordinator, New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council
Ulysses W. Burley III MD MPH - Program Director, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois
Vignetta Charles PhD - Chief Science Officer, ETR Associates
Cecilia Chung - Senior Strategist, Transgender Law Center
William H. Collier - Head North America, VIIV Healthcare, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Michelle Collins-Ogle MD FAAP AAHIVS - Director, Infectious Diseases, Warren-Vance Community Health Center Inc., Henderson, North Carolina
Yvette Flunder D. Min. - Founder and Senior Pastor, City of Refuge United Church of Christ, Presiding Bishop, The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Oakland, California
Grissel Granados MSW - Project Coordinator, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Jen Kates PhD - Chac Liaison, Director of Global, Health and HIV Policy
Gabriel Maldonado MBA - Executive Director and CEO, Truevolution, Riverside, California
Ligia Peralta MD FAAP FSAHM AAHIVS - President and CEO, Casa Ruben Foundation, Commissioner, Maryland Health Care Commission
Harlan Pruden - Two-Spirit Community Organizer, Vancouver, Canada
Scott A. Schoettes JD - HIV Project Director/Senior Attorney, Lambda Legal, Chicago, Illinois
Lawrence Stallworth II - Project Assistant and HIV Prevention Specialist, Abounding Prosperity Inc.
Elizabeth Styffe RN MN - Director, HIV/AIDS Ad Orphan Care Initiatives, Saddleback Valley Community Church
Mildred Williamson PhD MSW - Director, Research and Regulatory Affairs, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois

Former members

Thomas A. Coburn, M.D., former co-chair - an obstetrician and former Republican congressman from Oklahoma who gained a national reputation for his opposition to safer sex as a way to prevent HIV infections. Dr. Coburn is currently serving as the Junior Senator from Oklahoma.
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., former co-chair - President's Office, Morehouse School of Medicine, Sullivan was the Secretary of Health and Human Services during the George H. W. Bush administration
Rosa M. Biaggi, M.P.H., M.P.A – Connecticut Department of Public Health
Charles W. Blackwell – Served as the Council's only Native American member from 1997 to 2001.^[1]
Jacqueline S. Clements – Lincoln Community Health Center. Clements is an HIV testing counselor in rural North Carolina who is living with HIV and lost her husband and child to AIDS.
Mildred Freeman – Director, Health Education Division, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
John F. Galbraith – President and CEO, Catholic Medical Mission Board
Edward C. Green, Ph.D. – Senior Research Scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
David Greer – A marketing and communications consultant in Philadelphia. He is living with HIV.
Cheryl-Anne Hall
Jane Hu, Ph.D. – CEO & Founder, China Foundation, a philanthropic think tank
Karen Ivantic-Doucette, M.S.N, FNP, ACRN – Marquette University College of Nursing
Rashida Jolley
Franklyn N. Judson, M.D. – Professor and Director, Denver Public Health Department
Abner Mason – Executive Director, AIDS Responsibility Project
Sandra S. McDonald – President/Founder, OUTREACH, Inc
Joe S. McIlhaney, M.D.
Henry McKinnell, Jr., Ph.D. – Chairman & CEO Pfizer Inc
Brent Tucker Minor – Co-chair of the Ryan White Planning Council. He is living with HIV.
Jose A. Montero, M.D. – Associate Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida
Dandrick Moton – Director, Community and Youth Relations, Choosing to Excel
Beny Primm, MD – The Addiction Research and Treatment Corp.
David Reznik, D.D.S. – Chief, Dental Service, Grady Health System. Reznik is an expert in oral health care for people living with HIV, and serves on the Ryan White Planning Council of Metropolitan Atlanta.
Debbie Rock – Executive Director, Baltimore Pediatric HIV Program, Inc
Reverend Edwin Sanders II – Senior Servant, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church
Prem Sharma, D.D.S., M.S. – Associate Dean Emeritus, Marquette School of Dentistry
Lisa Mai Shoemaker – HIV/AIDS Activist/Motivational Speaker
Anita Smith – Children´s AIDS Fund
Don Sneed – Executive Director, Renaissance III, a non-profit organization providing AIDS-related services in south Texas. Sneed is a former addict, and is living with HIV.
M. Monica Sweeney, M.D., M.P.H. – Assistant Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center of Brooklyn
Ram Yogev, MD – Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School

Criticism

Critics have said they lack confidence in PACHA and note that the Council as reorganized under President Bush held only two meetings in 2002 and issued only five recommendations to the White House. By comparison, the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (Watkins Commission) submitted 597 recommendations to the Reagan Administration.

The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report in February 2004 entitled Scientific Integrity in Policymaking that said that President Bush intentionally appointed under-qualified individuals to PACHA as part of a broader effort to manipulate the government's scientific advisory system by providing the appearance of expert advice while controlling the advice given.

Critics pointed to the appointment of Dr. Joseph McIlhaney, a Texas-based doctor known for rejecting the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and for his advocacy of abstinence-only programs despite negligible evidence that they reduce pregnancy rates among young people.

References

↑ "Chickasaw Nation Ambassador Charles W. Blackwell – a Man of Vision". KXII. 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2013-01-20.

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