Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems
B.A., public affairs, Princeton University; J.D., New York University School of Law
Jesse Milan is a nationally recognized speaker and expert on HIV/AIDS policies and programs. He has 25 years of experience guiding and directing multimillion dollar prevention and care programs at regional, national, and global levels. A person living with HIV for 29 years, Mr. Milan provides thought leadership to federal and international entitites, and has chaired national HIV/AIDS boards and committees.
Appointed by former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, Mr. Milan served from 2002 to 2007 as Co-chair of the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment. In 2007, he was designated a Fulbright Senior Specialist with a specialization in Global HIV/AIDS. Mr. Milan is current board chair of the Black AIDS Institute and has served as president of the boards of Action AIDS (Pennsylvania’s largest AIDS service organization), the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium, and the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition.
Mr. Milan assumed the position of Vice President and Director of Altarum Institute’s Community Health Systems Group in April 2008. Prior to joining Altarum, he spent ten years at the SRA Constella Group, an international health consulting firm, serving as Vice President for Health Communications and Vice President for Global Health Convergence. During his years at SRA Constella Group, Mr. Milan oversaw health programs for federal, state, and local agencies and for private foundations; promoted public/private partnerships with academia and global health entities; and served as corporate philanthropy officer. Mr. Milan served for six years as Constella’s Project Director of the CDC’s National Prevention Information Network, a $70 million contract and the world’s largest service for dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB. He also served for eight years as Constella’s Director of the CDC Business and Labor Respond to AIDS Resource Service.
Mr. Milan served for six years as Chief of Staff to the President of Temple University; was Deputy City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia; and was an associate attorney at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius. Mr. Milan was also Director of the $21 million AIDS Office for the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and chaired the region’s HIV prevention and care planning processes.
Mr. Milan’s awards include the 2008 “Hero in the Struggle” award from the Black AIDS Institute for his national leadership in HIV/AIDS. He was also voted Humanitarian of the Year by the readers of the Philadelphia Gay News; received the first national HIV advocacy award in 2006 from the Balm in Gilead; and was honored in 2004 by the Health Resources and Services Administration for “leading the national and international fight against HIV disease.”
Areas of Expertise
Community Health
Health Policy Analysis
HIV / AIDS