Obama Names Jeffrey Crowley Office of National AIDS Policy Director [View All]

[La Lioness Priyanka]

President Obama announced today that Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, is the new Director of Office of National AIDS Policy, according to a White House announcement received by Towleroad.

Crowley is gay. According to the Victory Fund, "The LGBT community’s Presidential Appointments Project recommended Crowley for the appointment."

Said Obama: “Jeffrey Crowley brings the experience and expertise that will help our nation address the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis and help my administration develop policies that will serve Americans with disabilities. In both of these key areas, we continue to face serious challenges and we must take bold steps to meet them. I look forward to Jeffrey’s leadership on these critical issues.”


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