Anne Freeman, M.S.P.H, director of UT Southwestern’s Community Prevention and Intervention Unit and Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences in the School of Health Professions, will speak on “Changing HIV/AIDS: Reflections on 30 Years of Struggle and Hope” on Wednesday, August 22, at 12 noon in McDermott Plaza lecture hall D1.602. Professor Freeman’s presentation is free and open to the public; lunch will be served. Gordon Green, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine and former director of the Dallas County Health Department, will host the forum.

Professor Freeman’s reflections are informed by a deep and varied experience of the AIDS crisis from the early 1980s, when a diagnosis was regularly followed by early death, to the present, where antiretroviral drugs have made AIDS, at least for some patients, a manageable chronic condition. For the past 26 years, Ms. Freeman has worked primarily in HIV prevention, including behavioral intervention development, research, training, and technical assistance. Previously she worked in cancer control and prevention, specifically breast, cervical, and endometrial cancer, and project management of economic program evaluation studies. Her HIV prevention work includes managing a large program that provides prevention services to persons with high risk behaviors: counseling, testing, and effective behavioral interventions. She has participated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s seroepidemiology studies and CDC’s current expanded HIV surveillance studies. She is director of the Dallas STD/HIV Prevention Behavioral Intervention Training Center, one of 5 training centers nationwide funded by CDC to offer behavioral intervention training to STD and HIV prevention agencies and health departments, and the Capacity Building Assistance Center, which provides training and technical assistance to community-based organizations and health departments on effective behavioral HIV prevention interventions.

Pre-registration for the forum is not necessary. For more information, please contact John Fullinwider, 214-648-3801 or john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu.