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Timothy Harwood joins Fenway as Vice President of Development
Late last month, Timothy Harwood joined Fenway Health as our new Vice President of Development. Tim has had an impressive development career and comes to us from the Conservation Law Foundation, where he served as Vice President of Development for over six years. Tim has also served as Director of Development of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the earth and environmental science campus of Columbia University. Before that, he served as VP for Institutional Development at Hunter College and Deputy Director of Development for what was then called The New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center. A native New Englander, Tim enjoys both the slopes of northern New England and the waters of the coast. We welcome Tim to the Fenway team!
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Timothy Harwood
Philip Finch
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Philip Finch had originally stepped in to lead the Development Department on an interim basis and ended up serving for seven years as Vice President of Development and Communications. Phil will now return full time to his role in Communications and Marketing as Vice President of Communications. Phil has done a great job heading up both the Communications and Development departments, leading the team to a successful completion of our capital campaign, while consistently increasing the amount of crucial unrestricted annual support we receive each year. He will now focus on expanding Fenway’s marketing, public relations, online and social media strategies, and increasing the national profile of Fenway Health and The Fenway Institute.
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Dr. Mayer and HPTN 061 team honored
Fenway’s Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, along with Dr. Beryl A. Koblin, and Dr. Darrell P. Wheeler of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 061 Study Team will receive the Founders Award at Us Helping Us' Annual Celebration, "A Passion For Living," on October 13.
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The Founders Award is given in recognition of outstanding leadership and demonstrated service in support of HIV prevention in the African-American community. The HPTN 061 study showed disturbing rates of new HIV infections occurring among Black gay and bisexual men in the U.S. The study showed that the overall rate of new HIV infection among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in this study was 2.8% per year, a rate that is nearly 50% higher than in white MSM in the U.S. Even more alarming, HPTN 061 found that young Black MSM—those 30 years of age and younger—acquired HIV infection at a rate of 5.9% per year, three times the rate among U.S. white MSM.
Us Helping Us, People Into Living, Inc. is committed to improving the health and well being of Black gay men through innovative programs and services, and - through a vision of inclusiveness - to reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS in the entire Black community. The HPTN 061 study enrolled a total of 1,553 Black MSM in six U.S. cities; Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, D.C. and was conducted between 2009-2011.
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Sean Cahill participates in Body.com discussion marking National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
September 18 marked the 5th annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. To mark the occasion, Body.com published a roundtable discussion of HIV/AIDS issues and older people, and Fenway’s Dr. Sean Cahill was featured. Topics included, “Is it age or HIV?” “What can doctors do to help improve the quality of life -- both mental and physical -- of their patients?” and “We have seen an increase in newly diagnosed HIV rates among people over 50. What factors make this demographic more vulnerable to HIV infection? And is enough being done to educate our seniors about their risk factors?”
Sean is The Fenway Institute’s Director of Health Policy Research and also oversees Fenway’s LGBT Elder Health Project. You can read the Body.com discussion, which also featured Frances Meléndez, Interim Director, College of Staten Island; and James Masten, psychologist and author of Aging With HIV: A Gay Man's Guide, online.
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Massachusetts voter registration deadline
October 17
Fenway Health works hard to promote healthy habits in our patient population, neighborhoods, and in the broader LGBT community. From walk-in HIV testing to free wellness workshops, we pride ourselves on helping people feel healthier and happier. And here’s one more healthy habit we’d like to encourage our community to engage in: voting! Voting is an important opportunity to make your voice heard on the issues that affect your community. But you can’t vote if you aren’t registered! In Massachusetts, the last day to register to vote in the November 6 elections is October 17, 2012.
Fenway Health carries voter registration forms at our front desks and in our patient waiting areas. We’re even happy to mail them out for you! You can find other ways to register and download registration forms here. Young people: If you are under the age of 18, you can still register to vote if you will be eligible by the date of the election. (So if you are turning 18 on November 6, register!) You can read more about the importance of voting and how you can register before the October 17 deadline on our Fenway Focus blog.
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PHILANTHROPY CORNER
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