Kathie Hiers

CEOKathie Hiers has been active in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the epidemic first hit the South in the mid-1980′s. Kathie has served as the CEO of AIDS Alabama since January 2002.  Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Mobile AIDS Support Services and a founder of the Lee Simmons Fund for People Living with AIDS in Mobile, Alabama. Kathie is one of 25 people appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, providing advice and expertise to the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. She is also a member of the Planning Committee for the White House Summit on HIV and the South to be held in the spring of 2014. Kathie is President of the National AIDS Housing Coalition, and Co-Chair of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership. She also serves on the Public Policy Committee of AIDS United. From 2004 to 2009, Kathie was Chair of the Southern AIDS Coalition, where she played a leading role in changing the Ryan White distribution methodology in the 2006 re-authorization of the bill. Locally, Kathie has served as Chair of the Ryan White Consortium and as President of the Metropolitan Birmingham Services for the Homeless.  She is currently an appointee to the Governor of Alabama’s HIV Task Force. Kathie is frequently called upon to speak on AIDS housing, advocacy, the South, and rural issues, and has been a featured speaker for many media conferences and Congressional Briefings. Kathie’s work on behalf of the South has been feature...
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