California: San Francisco AIDS Foundation Hires Policy Director

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation has hired Judy Auerbach, Ph.D., as its new deputy executive director for science and public policy. Auerbach is leaving the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), where she is vice president for public policy and program development, and will begin her new duties in mid-September. Before joining amfAR, Auerbach directed AIDS behavioral and social science programs in the National Institute of Health's Office of AIDS Research. In 1998, she served as assistant director for social and behavioral science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In the early 1990s, she worked as a senior program officer at the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, where she was also study director for the Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in AIDS Research. Auerbach received her doctorate in sociology from the University of California-Berkeley in 1986.

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