Chris Collins,

Chris Collins is a co-founder of AVAC and was previously its executive director. As a consultant to AVAC he has written on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other issues. He joined amfAR as Vice President and Director of public policy in April 2009. Collins has spent more than 18 years working in HIV/AIDS policy and advocacy. He is the author of Improving Outcomes: Blueprint for a National AIDS Plan for the United States, which was published by the Open Society Institute in 2007. Before joining amfAR Collins was a consultant on policy and communications for numerous health organizations, including the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy, where he helped organize efforts to advance the National AIDS Strategy movement, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he helped coordinate the Global HIV Prevention Working Group. He also oversaw production of the series of Missing the Target reports on international AIDS service scale-up produced by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). As Appropriations Associate for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (now Speaker) in the late 1990s, Collins developed the first Congressional legislation designed to provide incentives for the development and delivery of vaccines against AIDS, malaria, and TB. Collins is the author of dozens of publications on HIV/AIDS policy. He holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.