NOTE: In many cases, I develop a concept and provide initial drafts to the client. The final product rarely (if ever) bears my name, but I am happy to provide references who can verify that I wrote and/or edited a significant amount of the content represented here.

Digital Content for:

• The Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) National Strategic Plan.

• The Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States (EHE) initiative, including authoring the EHE Style Guide for federal staff, partners, and stakeholders.

• The Ready, Set, PrEP initiative.

• The Minority HIV/AIDS Fund.

• Well Versed and His Health--public health initiatives by the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.

• The HIV.gov Timeline. As an outgrowth of that project, I am also the creator and editor of HistoryOfHIV.org. This new timeline offers meticulously documented information (and extensive annotations) for every entry, as well as visual elements. The HistoryOfHIV.org is currently a work in progress.

• The Administration for Children and Families blog

White House Projects

Note: Editing, by its very nature, is a collaborative effort--and this is particularly true for high-level documents. Although no White House report is ever the product of a single writer/editor, I had penultimate editing control over the following documents:

• Addressing the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities [PDF, 291KB]

• Report by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status [PDF, 15.27MB].

I also provided writing/editing support for:

• National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States, 2010 [PDF, 1.69MB] and related documents.

• National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020 [PDF, 2.18MB] and related documents.

Other Recent Projects

• Support for HHS’s campaign to improve viral suppression rates among people with HIV. Link to come when the campaign goes live.

• "Health," a chapter in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender.

Press Releases

• HHS Releases First National Strategic Plan to Address Sexually Transmitted Infections.

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Writing/editing successful proposals or grants requires special skills. Subject-matter knowledge is important, as is in-depth knowledge of the funder—whether that be a government agency or a private foundation.

But the winning edge comes from sculpting intriguing new approaches to funders’ current challenges and offering more effective ways to achieve their goals and serve their audiences. Let me show you how that’s done.

• In the FY2021 federal proposal season, I wrote and/or edited proposals that brought my clients approximately $10.5 million in new business.

• In FY21, I supported the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics at the National Science Foundation in its effort to document the need for a federal data hub and get approval to create it. The contract for America’s Data Hub, an entity that will “strengthen, support, and advance the NCSES mission by engaging in ground-breaking activities related to data access and sharing, infrastructure, and analysis across the broad landscape of the science and engineering enterprise” was awarded on September 7, 2021.

• I supported four early career professors at Case Western Reserve University—Jennifer Carter, Emily Pentzer, Mike Hore, and Alp Sehirlioglu—in their successful bids for the highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER grants.

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I have written/edited materials to support speeches/keynotes by multiple high-level public figures, including:

• Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

• HHS Cabinet Secretaries: Donna Shalala, Tommy Thompson, Michael Levitt, Kathleen Sebelius, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Tom Price, and Alex Azar—as well as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro.

• U.S. Surgeons General: David Satcher, Richard Carmona, Regina Benjamin, Vivek Murthy, and Jerome Adams.

• Directors of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy: Scott Evertz, Joseph O'Neill, Carol Thompson, Jeffrey Crowley, Grant Colfax, Douglas Brooks, and newly appointed director Harold Phillips.

• PEPFAR Ambassadors: Randall Tobias, Mark Dybul, Eric Goosby, and Deborah Birx.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Directors: Julie Gerberding, Tom Frieden, Brenda Fitzgerald, and Robert Redfield.

• Directors of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention: Kevin Fenton and Jonathan Mermin, and Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Eugene McCray. (Dr. Mermin was previously the director of that Division for many years before being appointed head of the NCHHSTP.)

• National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director, Anthony Fauci, and Director of the NIAID Division of AIDS, Carl Dieffenbach.

• National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research Directors: Jack Whitescarver and Maureen Goodenow.

• Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau Administrators Deborah Parham Hopson and Laura Cheever.

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The following videos were developed based on my scripts:

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