World AIDS Day Commemoration Address

November 28, 2005

What: World AIDS Day Commemoration Address, sponsored by the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. Spencer Lieb, M.P.H., the senior epidemiologist at the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS, will provide an overview of current trends in HIV/AIDS in Florida. The Sunshine State has consistently ranked No. 2 in the nation for incidence of HIV infections.

Lieb has worked in public health since 1972. His experience has included sexually transmitted disease investigation and methadone maintenance program management in New York City and statewide communicable disease control in Florida. He joined the Florida Department of Health AIDS program in 1986, after coordinating the groundbreaking Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health Belle Glade HIV study. Since then, he has served three years each as HIV/AIDS prevention program administrator and HIV/AIDS surveillance program administrator.

World AIDS Day — the international day of action on HIV and AIDS — is held annually on Dec. 1.

When: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1

Where: HPNP Complex, Room G101 on UF’s campus, 101 S. Newell Drive.