Full Name
Sean Cahill
Job Title
Director of Health Policy Research
Organization
Fenway Institute
Speaker Bio
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).
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