JD Davids

JD Davids is a chronically ill and disabled queer and trans organizer, writer, strategist and PrEP user living with ME/CFS, Long COVID and several other chronic conditions in Brooklyn, N.Y, on Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land.

A longtime HIV activist originally brought up by ACT UP Philadelphia, Davids was the senior editor and director of strategic communications at TheBody/TheBodyPro from 2014 to 2018. Currently co-director of Strategies for High Impact and its Long COVID Justice Project, he is contributing to work to build the power of networks of chronically-ill and disabled people, including people living with HIV, ME/CFS, and/or Long COVID. and is also a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. He writes and hosts conversations for The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness at @TheCrankyQueer.

As an HIV research advocate, he served on the Strategic Working Group within the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in addition to multiple advisory committees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.

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