Alvin Novick, Ph.D. Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University Box 208106 Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8106 USA phone: 203-432-3882 email: alvin.novick@yale.edu

My research, since 1982, has concerned legal, ethical, public policy and community development aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I do not do laboratory science. Among the topics that have interested me are:

• Societal stigmatization and ostracization of groups that have thereby been rendered vulnerable to HIV infection.
• AIDS education and prevention.
• Risk reduction for injection drug users (including education, needle exchange, legal access to sterile injection equipment, user-friendly and accessible drug treatment programs, and inclusion of illicit drug users in clinical trials so as to enhance the likelihood of access to good medical care.)
• Ethical issues in ethnographic research, ethical and public policy issues around surveillance, confidentiality, testing, the conduct of clinical trials.
• Post exposure prophylaxis.
• The use of law to regulate behavior.
• Systematic oppression of HIV vulnerable and infected people.
• Drug adherence.
• Vertical transmission.
• The purity of the blood supply.
• HIV infected health care workers.

In addition, I have been a participant-observer of community development in reference to HIV/AIDS, helping to found AIDS Project New Haven, the New Haven Mayor's Task Force on AIDS, the New Haven Needle Exchange Program, and, in part, essentially all HIV/AIDS programs in New Haven. I have also served on the FDA's Anti-viral Drugs Advisory Committee and various U.S. Public Health Service Advisory committees - including HRSA, CDC and NIH. Currently, I am the Director of the Law, Policy and Ethics Core of Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and the editor-in-chief of AIDS and Public Policy Journal and a board member of several AIDS related community and health agencies.

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