New Face: Francisco Sy : The new chair of environmental and occupational health says he was drawn to UNLV in part because of the opportunity to mentor minority students. I did a sabbatical for one year at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but I stayed at CDC for four years doing HIV/AIDS program evaluation and then from there I got a job at National Institutes of Health (NIH), where I worked for 12 years in the National Center of Minority Health and Health Disparities, which later became an institute. Tell us about a time in your life when you have been daring? When I was in South Carolina in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, I responded as an academician by organizing the first international conference on AIDS education in 1987 without federal or state funding. It led to the formation of the International Society for AIDS Education that year and my election as its first president. In 1988, I conceived and developed AIDS Education and Prevention - An Interdisciplinary Journal....

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