Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W., is a clinical social worker and co-director of the Gay Health Advocacy Project (GHAP), a program of Columbia University's Health and Related Services in New York City. He received his masters degree in social work from the Columbia University School of Social Work.

The Gay Health Advocacy Project was one of the first college-based programs to provide HIV testing in this country. GHAP continues to provide campus-wide HIV testing, counseling and treatment management, and has served as a model for other University programs. GHAP is equally committed to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons (LBGT) at Columbia University where Mr. Kull provides counseling, advocacy and innovative programming for those communities. The Next Generation Project -- an LBGT mentoring program to help bridge the generational gap in the community -- is one of GHAP's newest programs.

Mr. Kull has been working with HIV-related issues in New York City for the past ten years, specifically focusing on it's impact in the gay community. His work has ranged from working for AIDS and LBGT-related media organizations to case work services for HIV-positive persons at Harlem Hospital Center. He was most recently a counselor at New York's Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center where he provided individual, couples and group counseling around issues of substance abuse, addictions and HIV for the Project Connect program. He has also facilitated support groups at Housing Works for HIV-positive gay men.

Mr. Kull is also in private practice in New York City providing psychotherapy services. To contact him, click here.