Sean Cahill
Fenway Institute
Director of Health Policy Research
Sean Cahill, Ph.D., is the Director of Curriculum and Policy for the Evidence-Informed Interventions Center for Coordinating Technical Assistance. In this role he will develop a curriculum of webinars and a toolkit of actionable issue briefs, in consultation with expert faculty, for dissemination to 24 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Sites via the HRSA/TARGET Center website. Dr. Cahill is Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute where he focuses on LGBT health issues, HIV/AIDS, and elder and youth policy. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at New York University, and Lecturer in Political Science at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses on LGBT public policy. His background includes leading policy research at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute from 1999 to 2007, and policy research and prevention efforts at Gay Men’s Health Crisis from 2007 to 2011. Working with staff from the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2007-2008 Dr. Cahill helped develop language into the 2008 reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) promoting HIV prevention with gay and bisexual men in Africa and the Caribbean, and to conduct epidemiological research on men who have sex with men and HIV. From 2009-2012 Dr. Cahill worked with the Global Forum on MSM and HIV Policy Working Group to promote implementation of the MSM prevention and research provisions of PEPFAR; and from 2007 through 2010 he worked closely with other U.S. AIDS activists and White House officials to support and inform the development of a domestic National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS).

Richard Cancio
The Fenway Institute
Curriculum Manager
Richard Cancio began his career in international development and global health as a Peace Corp volunteer in Namibia. Following his Peace Corps service, Richard completed his Master’s in Public Health from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. Richard then worked as the LGBT Health Services Program Manager for the Mount Sinai Health System – where he educated hospital staff and medical students on LGBT competent care. Since then he has developed a strong skill set for issues surrounding gender identity and healthcare including HIV/AIDS education, Sexual Risk Reduction, LGBT health program implementation, and mitigating Everyday Bias in Health. Currently, as the Curriculum Manager on the Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance team for the E2i project, Richard works to create culturally competent educational materials for a diverse patient population.

Laura Cheever, MD, ScM
Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau
Associate Administrator
Laura Cheever, MD, ScM, is the associate administrator for the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Dr. Cheever previously served as the deputy associate administrator and chief medical officer of the HIV/AIDS Bureau, responsible for leading the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and HRSA's programming for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. She has also provided national leadership for HIV/AIDS care and treatment, including the development of federal guidelines for HIV care. Dr. Cheever joined HRSA in 1999 as the chief of the HIV Education Branch where she was responsible for providing HIV/AIDS clinical education and training for the nation's health care providers.
Before joining HRSA, Dr. Cheever was an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She is committed to serving the HIV population and volunteers at the Bartlett Clinic for HIV Care at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

Antigone Dempsey MEd
HRSA
Special Advisor
Antigone Dempsey is the Division Director for Policy and Data at the Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau, in Rockville, MD. She has dedicated her 29 year career to moving HIV prevention, care, support, and treatment services forward for all vulnerable populations. She began her work soon after her HIV diagnosis at age 22. She is committed to creating systems that help people live healthy, productive, and meaningful lives.
Currently, Ms. Dempsey serves as the Director for the Division of Policy and Data for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau. Prior to this position, Ms. Dempsey worked closely with many federal partners including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide organizational leadership, expert facilitation, training, technical assistance, strategic planning, policy development and systems change to address HIV, viral hepatitis, and substance abuse issues.
Ms. Dempsey earned her Master’s in Education from The George Washington University in Washington DC. Her focus areas were in organizational and human development.

Alicia Downes
AIDS United
Director of Federal Programs
Alicia Downes serves as the Director of Federal Programs at AIDS United. Alicia got hooked on sociology during her first semester of college despite her family hope for a Computer Science degree. She received her Master of Social Work from University of Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) and has almost 10 years of experience in mental health. Alicia began work in the HIV field almost 20 years ago, when she was hired as a Ryan White Case Manager. Three months later, she was helping her uncle find HIV services, along with educating her family about HIV. Alicia has experience managing federal grant from SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA, and private foundations. Prior to joining the staff of AIDS United, Alicia worked as a consultant on this project the AIDS United HRSA SPNS project. She also recently served as the Midwest AIDS Education and Training Center of Missouri Site and Peer Program Manager and an instructor, teaching Community Health Worker classes.

Sara Durán, MPH, CHES
North Park Family Health Centers
Associate Clinic Director
Sara Durán, MPH, CHES has over a decade of experience in public health, providing program management, clinic administration, and supporting the San Diego Ryan White HIV community-planning process. Ms. Durán currently serves as the Associate Clinic Director for North Park Family Health Centers, a community-based clinic that provides care and support to people who are uninsured, low income, and medically underserved in San Diego County. In previous roles, she coordinated Peer Navigation Services, a nationally recognized, trauma-informed mobile/home-based model utilizing peer-based motivational support to engage and retain women living with HIV in medical care. Ms. Durán has provided capacity building assistance and technical assistance in trauma-informed care and service provision including trauma-informed practices, the neurobiology associated with Complex Trauma as well as cultural and historical trauma issues. She has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Southern California and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Erin C. Falvey-Hogue, PhD, MFT
Narrative: A Marriage and Therapy Corporation
Marriage and Family Therapist
Erin C. Falvey-Hogue is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been practicing therapy in San Diego since 2004. Erin’s therapeutic practice focuses on individual, relational, and community empowerment and she has worked extensively with trauma, the LGBT community, chronic health conditions, and stress management. In 2012, she spearheaded the development of the TIA/CHANGE approach to trauma-informed service provision which was cited by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) in the Update on Efforts to Address the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender Related Health Disparities report in 2014 and recognized by ONAP at the White House United State of Women in 2016 as furthering the Updated National AIDS Strategy. In addition to numerous presentations for local organizations, she has presented to larger audiences both locally and nationally on trauma-informed care and healthcare engagement for women, children, and families living with HIV/AIDS through multiple peer-reviewed abstracts and invited speaking engagements, the most notable being at the White House Commemoration and Annual Observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in 2015.

Erin earned her Bachelor's degree in Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University. She is also a graduate of the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program.

Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN
Penn State Nursing
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion
With more than 25 years of experience in nursing, research, higher education, and health policy analysis, Sheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, served as dean of the School of Health Professions until August 2018.

Fields received his Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and B.S. degrees in nursing from Binghamton (N.Y.) University. He also completed post-doctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a Legal Nurse Consultant certificate from the University of Rochester. He is a nationally board certified Family Nurse Practitioner and an advanced HIV/AIDS certified registered nurse.

Prior to joining NYIT, Fields served as chief wellness officer, dean, and professor of the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California (2015 – 2016). From 2011 to 2015, he was assistant dean of clinical affairs and health policy, associate professor of nursing, and co-director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He also has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Nursing and Binghamton University. Fields’s extensive research on HIV prevention and treatment among black men has spanned decades, resulting in an impressive record of conference and poster presentations, scholarly articles, book chapters, seminars, invited lectures, webinars, and newspaper articles, as well as radio and television appearances.

In addition to his academic and research accomplishments, Fields was the first ever male registered nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. As a fellow, he worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions—Subcommittee on Aging during the historic healthcare reform debates and 2009-10 passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Fields’s professional contributions have been recognized with inductions as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners; the National Academies of Practice—Nursing Academy; and the American Academy of Nursing. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association and a former national director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).

Mary Guze
UCSF
Lead Data Manager/Analyst
Mary is the Quantitative Data Lead at the 2iS Evaluation Center within the UCSF Division of Prevention Sciences. Mary received her MPH in epidemiology from UCLA. She has worked at UCSF since 2011 with research groups focusing on HIV prevention, and care and treatment, in both domestic and low-resource international settings. Currently, Mary works on several evaluation teams for HRSA HAB SPNS funded multi-site initiatives. In this role, she conceptualizes quantitative evaluation plans, designs and maintains data collection systems and tools, trains initiative staff in data collection procedures and best practices, monitors data quality, and designs and conducts quantitative analyses.

Alex Keuroghlian
Fenway Health
Director, Division of Education and Training
Alex Keuroghlian MD MPH is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Director, Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute; and Director and Michele and Howard J Kessler Chair, Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is principal investigator of the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute, a HRSA BPHC-funded cooperative agreement to improve care for LGBTQIA+ people across the U.S., as well as the HRSA HAB-funded Using Innovative Intervention Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes among People with HIV (2iS) Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance, which implements interventions nationally for people with HIV. Dr. Keuroghlian established the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program and is clerkship director for two senior electives in sexual and gender minority health at HMS. He also co-directs the HMS Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative, which leads longitudinal medical curriculum and faculty development in LGBTQIA+ health.

Linda Marc ScD, MPH
The Fenway Institute
National Implementation Director
Linda Marc, Sc.D., M.P.H., is the National Implementation Director for the HRSA-funded Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance. In this role she is responsible for designing and delivering technical assistance to support the implementation of the chosen interventions at 24 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Sites. Prior to this role, Dr. Marc was the Education and Curriculum Development Director within the Preparedness Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this capacity she also served as an advisor to the Haitian Ministry of Health on the mental health service needs of LGBT communities in Haiti, following the 2010 earthquake. In preparation for the Convening, Dr. Marc coordinated the rankings of interventions with national experts and community advisory board members, as well as oversaw the Fenway project team that collected scores, analyzed data, and generated the summary report on rankings. Dr. Marc holds an appointment as an Instructor in Biostatistics within the Quantitative Methods Program at Harvard Chan. She received a Doctor of Science in Social Determinants of Health from Harvard Chan, a Master of Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health, and completed post-doctoral training in the Mood Disorders Program and HIV Clinical Trials Unit at the Weill Medical College of Cornell. As a Research Fellow, her agenda focused on HIV-related health disparities at Brown University through the Initiative on HIV/AIDS in Disadvantage Communities, and within the program on Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health at Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School.

Massah Massaquoi
The Fenway Institute
National Implementation Manager
Massah Massaquoi, M.P.H., is the National Implementation Manager for the HRSA-funded Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance. In this role she is responsible for designing and managing communication strategies between collaborators, which includes national experts, community advisory board members, and internal and external partners. Massah is also the Technical Assistance Lead for 13 of the 26 funded sites, she helps support day-to-day concerns of the subawardees as well as monitor and assess implementation activities, implementation strategies, and the core elements of the site-selected interventions via monthly monitoring calls, cohort calls and narrative reports.

Prior to this role, Massah worked at the Fenway Institute as the Research Program Coordinator with the Adolescent Trials Network, where she conducted HIV clinical trials and provided sexual health educational resources for LGBTQ youth and families throughout Boston, MA. Through her various roles at Fenway Health she has worked to create policy and internal institutional change to better serve youth living with HIV through community mobilization and structural change. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Iowa State University and with a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she focused on how behavioral economics and nutritional quality impact HIV health outcomes amongst same gender loving individuals, youth, women and infants.

Janet Myers
UCSF
Professor
Janet is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Prevention Science at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Myers has more than two decades of experience conducting health services and implementation science research in clinical and public health settings. Her background is in medical sociology, health services, and policy research, with specific training and expertise in implementing and evaluating HIV care and prevention interventions and strategies in clinical settings. She currently serves or has served on the leadership team of eight evaluation provider projects funded by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) initiatives. Dr. Myers also conducts implementation studies to evaluate HIV care and treatment and transitional care programs delivered in carceral settings. Dr. Myers is a course director and faculty member in the Implementation Science Program at UCSF and serves as the Population Health Director in UCSF’s PRISE (Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity) Center, which advances the use of implementation science methods to improve health and health equity.

Hannah Norris
AIDS United
Program Manager
Hannah Bryant is the Program and Compliance Officer at AIDS United. She works on two HRSA-funded cooperative agreements, the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum Initiative, Implementation Technical Assistance Center (DEII ITAC) and the Using Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes among People Living with HIV Initiative, Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (E2i CCTA). In this role, Ms. Bryant closely collaborates with Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients and subrecipients across the country. She coordinates technical assistance and training that effectively builds organizational and individual capacity to adapt and replicate evidence-informed interventions in diverse settings, including the Integrating Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in HIV Primary Care intervention and the Transitional Care Coordination from Jail Intake to Community HIV Primary Care intervention. In this role, Ms. Bryant is also responsible for managing subawardee budgets, contracts, and monitoring.

While at the George Washington University, Ms. Bryant served as a research consultant and program assistant to the Global Gender Program, which supported a women’s empowerment and cross-cultural exchange project, funded by the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Bryant also designed and conducted an acceptability assessment of e-health interventions among women at risk or living with HIV at The Women’s Collective, in Washington, DC

Starley Shade
University of California, San Francisco
Professor
Dr. Shade is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Acting Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Their work focuses on application of rigorous methods in the quantitative and economic evaluation of community and clinic-based interventions in underserved communities. Dr. Shade teaches study design in real-world settings within the Implementation Science Program and Foundations of Global Epidemiology within the Global Health Master’s program at UCSF. They are committed to training and mentoring community members, members of community-based organizations, and researchers from underserved communities in the application of these methods to evaluate implementation and effectiveness of interventions in real-world settings.

Joseph Stango
AIDS United
Senior Program Manager
Joseph D Stango is a program manager working on the Using Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve the Health Outcomes Among People Living with HIV initiative (E2i). He joined the AIDS United team in early 2018 after having served at other non-profit organizations.

Bryan Thompson
AIDS United
Program Associate
Bryan Thompson is a Program Associate for the Using Innovative Intervention Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes among People with HIV (2iS). Bryan is a DC Native who loves his city. That same love is what led him to nonprofit work in the area, starting out at Us Helping Us, People Into Living, an organization that caters towards Gay Black Men like himself. Through his experience at Us Helping Us, Bryan developed a passion for public health. He discovered how much joy could come from talking with people about sex, their sexual health, to build community and reduce stigma. He is thrilled to be bringing this passion to the national level in his work at AIDS United. Outside of his work, Bryan loves Britney Spears, Game of Thrones, and unicorns. In addition, his latest craze has been traveling. He has a goal to visit all 48 continental states of the country in what he hopes to be an epic road trip around America.