Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America: Exposing the Epidemic – Resource List
Sexually Transmitted Diseases In America:
Exposing the Epidemic
November 20, 1996
Briefing Participants:
Peggy Clarke
President
American Social Health Association
P.O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC27709
919/361-8400
Press contact: Sharon Broom
919/361-8416
Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Press Contact: Susan Tew
212/248-1111 ext. 208
Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, National Center forHIV, STD,
and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention MSEO7
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
Press contact: Melissa Shepard
404/639-8890
Penelope Hitchcock, D.V.M., M.S.
Chief, STD Branch, NIAID
National Institutes of Health
Rm. 3A21, Solar Building
6003 Executive Blvd.
Rockville, MD 20892
301/402-0443
Azadeh Khalili
Executive Director
HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Project
131 Livingston St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718/935-5606
Felicia H. Stewart, M.D.
Director of Reproductive Health
Programs
Kaiser Family Foundation
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Press Contact: Tina Hoff,
Communications Program Officer
415/ 854-9400, ext. 106
Kathleen Toomey, M.D.
State Epidemiologist and
Director, Epidemiology and
Prevention Branch
Division of Public Health
Department of Human Resources
2 Peachtree Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30303
404/657-2588
Press contact: Joyce Goldberg
404/656-4937
Judith Wasserheit, M.D.
Director, Division of STD/HIV Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention MSEO2
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
404/639-8260
Press contact: Melissa Shepard
404/639-8890
Other References:
American College of Obstetriciansand Gynecologists
Department of Public Information
PO Box 96920
Washington, DC 20090-6920
Media Inquiries: (202)484-3321
Barbara Levine
Director of Government Relations and Affiliate Affairs
American Public Health Association
1015 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Press office: 202/789-5677
Week of 11/17 – 11/19 only:
212/261-6365
Marie Bass
Project Director, Reproductive Health
Technologies Project
Bass and Howes
1818 N Street, NW
Suite 450
Washington, DC 20036
202/530-2900
Leslie Wolfe, Ph.D.
President
Center for Women Policy Studies
1211 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 312
Washington, DC 20036
202/872-1770
Tom Eng, W.M.D., M.P.H.
Study Director
Institute of Medicine
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20418
Press contact: Molly Galvin
202/334-2138
Susan Wysocki, R.N.C., M.P.
President
National Association ofNurse Practitioners in ReproductiveHealth
1090 Vermont Avenue, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
202/408-7025
Marilyn Keefe
Director of Services
National Family Planningand Reproductive Health Association
122 C Street, NW
Suite 380
Washington, DC 20001
202/628-3535
Carolyn Patierno
Co-Chairperson
STD Prevention Partnership
Director of Program Services
Sexuality Information andEducation Council of the UnitedStates (SIECUS)
130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036-7802
212-819-9770, ext.305
For information about local/regional spokespeople on STDs, call:
Joan Cates
American Social Health Association
919-361-8417
Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States: Exposing the Epidemic:
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