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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Selects-Health-Policy-Expert-to-Head-Office-of-National-AIDS-Policy/ THE BRIEFING ROOM Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am President Obama Selects Health Policy Expert to Head Office of National AIDS Policy THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________ For Immediate Release February 26, 2009 Jeffrey S. Crowley will join Domestic Policy Council as Top Advisor on HIV/AIDS issues President Barack Obama today announced the appointment of one of the nation’s leading public health policy experts as the Director of Office of National AIDS Policy. Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute will...

The abrupt departure of the State Department’s global AIDS coordinator has led to debate over who should run what may be President Bush’s greatest legacy: his commitment of billions of dollars to fighting AIDS overseas... “There are plenty of people who (will) be damned if the job is filled this way. This isn’t the truth-in-advertising of the Obama campaign.”