Guest Profile
Mike Shriver
Mike has been involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy, activism, program development, organizational development and public policy efforts for over 30 years. His efforts have been at the local, statewide, national and international levels and have encompassed issues such as HIV+ primary prevention efforts, overall HIV prevention efforts, substance use/abuse interventions, HIV/AIDS care, community organizing and mobilization as well as HIV research.
Mike’s past affiliations include being Chair of the Board of Directors of the National AIDS Memorial, the nation’s only federally-designated memorial to HIV/AIDS.
Mike joined the Board in 2009 (and has served a Governance Chair, Fund Development Chair and . co-chair of World AIDS Day in 2009, 2010 and 2011). He is also an honorary trustee of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). His past Board affiliations include amfAR, the Castro Country Club, HIV Prevention Project (Needle Exchange), the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, the Tenderloin AIDS Network, the Castro Country Club (former chair) as well as a Board Member of NorCal CMA and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. He has served as Health Commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco as well as Special Advisor to the Mayor on AIDS/HIV Policy.
Mike is one of the four co-chairs of the San Francisco Community HIV Planning Council, the joint planning body which oversees HIV prevention and care resource allocation for both San Francisco as well as the Title 1 EMA. He also is a Steering Committee member of the Getting To Zero Consortium of San Francisco.
Mike served on the original San Francisco Ryan White CARE Council from 1991 to 1996 (including being co-chair) and again was a member from 1998 - 1999.
Mike was one of the principal architects of HIV Community Planning in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has served as a panel member of the Levine Commission evaluating the effectiveness of HIV prevention science for the National Institutes of Health. For several years he was the Executive Director of Mobilization Against AIDS, California’s oldest HIV/AIDS advocacy organization as well as Deputy Executive Director of Policy at the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA) in Washington, DC.
Mike also served as interim Executive Director, Development Director, Community Liaison and Health Outreach Worker of 18th Street Services, which was the nation’s largest outpatient drug treatment program for gay and bisexual men.
Mike was also a member of the original ACT UP/San Francisco. Mike served as the Special Adviser to the Mayor of San Francisco on AIDS and HIV Policy and was the co-director of the AIDS Policy Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and the AIRS Research Institute (ARI).
His publications include assessing HIV prevention policy and politics (JAIDS, 1996), efforts to provide primary HIV prevention services to HIV+ individuals (AIDS, 2000), as well as understanding disparity in health access to HIV CARE and Medicaid benefits as well as improving comprehensive primary care services for HIV+ individuals (for HRSA, 1999/2000).
Mike is an openly gay man living with AIDS and who is recovery. He also is an individual living with Polymyositis, a rare autoimmune disorder.
Mike is retired, lives in San Francisco with his dog Moose and is an avid photographer.
