2004: The Black AIDS Mobilization Initiative - Participants

Christopher H. Bates, Acting Director for the Department of Health and Human ServicesÕ Office of HIV/AIDS Policy.

Jeanella Blair, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Magic Johnson Foundation.

Stuart Burden, Director for the Americas within the Worldwide Community Affairs Department of Levi Strauss & Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation.

Austin R. Cooper, Vice President for Public Policy at the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.

Mildred Freeman, Director of the Health Education Division of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

Robert Fullilove, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.

Eric Goosby, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. Rep. Laura Hall, Alabama State Legislature.

John Hall, AIDS activist.

Ernest Hopkins, Director of Federal Affairs at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF).

Rita Howard, President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Manhattan Chapter.

Grazell Howard, Esq., National First Vice President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

Peggy Johnston, Ph.D., Director for Vaccine and Prevention Research, Division of AIDS and Assistant Director for HIV Vaccines at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Brenda D. Larkin, RN, BSN, CCRC, Manager of Nursing Operations at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Peter Leone, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, adjunct associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and medical director of the North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Control Branch, Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS).

Jerry Lopes, President of Program Operations & Affiliations, American Urban Radio Networks (AURN).

David Malebranche, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor at the Division of General Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, and a visiting professor for the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.

Marsha Martin, D.S.W., Executive Director of AIDS Action.

Hope Mason, Vice President for Programs, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Manhattan Chapter, Inc.

Sandra F. McDonald, President and Founder of OUTREACH, INC.

Jesse Milan, Jr., Vice President and Director of Health Communications for the Constella Group.

Patrick Packer, National AIDS Coordinator for the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Jonathan Perry, student activist at Johnson C. Smith University.

Beny Primm, M.D., Executive Director of the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation (A.R.T.C.) of Brooklyn, New York, President of the Urban Resource Institute, chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Minority AIDS Council, and 1st vice chairman of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.

George W. Roberts, Ph.D., Associate Director for Prevention Partnerships in the Division of HIV-AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control.

Karl-Lyn Sanderson, Project Coordinator at The Tavis Smiley Foundation.

Robert C. Scott, M.D., immediate past president of the Board of Directors of the AIDS Project of the East Bay (APEB).

Pernessa C. Seele, Founder and Executive Director of The Balm In Gilead, Inc.

Adam Taylor, Executive Director of Global Justice.

Diana Williamson, M.D.

Phill Wilson, Founder and Executive Director of the Black AIDS Institute.

Chad Womack, Ph.D., Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center.

Board and staff from the John M. Lloyd Foundation also participated in the summit.