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Demetre C. Daskalakis is an American physician and gay health activist serving as director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention since 2020. In 2022, the administration of Joe Biden appointed him the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.

Daskalakis worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, where at one time he held the position of medical director of ambulatory HIV services. He was also an assistant professor at New York University. His work with the "Men's Sexual Health Project", which he founded in 2006, involved working in sex clubs and bathhouses to test men for sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and direct them to care. Daskalakis joined the New York City Department of Health in 2013.

During a 2012-2013 meningitis outbreak in the city, Daskalakis opened a pop-up clinic as part of a vaccination campaign targeting at-risk groups, such as men who had sex with men, and was credited with halting it.[9] By 2014, he was deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.[10]

Daskalakis was a task force member of Ending the Epidemic, a campaign focused on decreasing HIV transmission rates in New York City. Since joining the city's health department, he has promoted the concept of "status-neutral care", a strategy for HIV treatment and prevention which takes the same approach to initial patient care regardless of the patient's HIV status. The concept was part of the plan for the Ending the Epidemic campaign.

Starting on December 21, 2020, he has served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention

On August 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed him as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.

Dr. Angélica Cifuentes Kottkamp is a South American doctor who graduated in 2011 from San Martín University, in Bogotá D.C., Colombia. She came to the United States in 2012 to work as a Research Assistant at the Glomerular Center of Columbia University where she oversaw multiple clinical trials on glomerular diseases and kidney transplant. 

She completed her residency in Internal Medicine in BronxCare Health System, an affiliated hospital of Icahn School of Medicine, and in 2016 she joined NY U Grossman School of Medicine where she completed her Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Immunology. 

She joined the Division as Faculty in 2018 and became a key member of the Infectious Diseases team in Bellevue Hospital where she keeps a continuity clinic at the Virology Clinic taking care of patients living with HIV, mostly Hispanics / Latinx. 

Dr. Kottkamp has led basic science research projects on viruses such as Zika and Chikungunya and has been a major educator in the training of future infectious disease specialists both at NYU and internationally in countries like Zambia & Ghana, achieving important recognition as winning the Teacher of The Year award in 2021. 

In 2019 she joined the NYU Langone Vaccine Center and has since led multiple vaccine studies of COVID-19, Shingles, Influenza, Mpox, monoclonal antibodies, immune responses, among others. During the pandemic, she has been invited to multiple public events on vaccine education for the Latinx community next to important figures such Dr. Fauci and Dr. David Chokshi (former NYC Health Commissioner). 

Dr. Kottkamp is a member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, she the Associate Director for Research and Diversity of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center and is the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Disease and Immunology Fellowship Training Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. 

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine previously served eight years in the New York City Council, representing parts of Upper Manhattan and was a leading voice for tenants’ rights, public health, and equity in schools, transit, parks, and housing. Previously, he taught bilingual middle school math and science in the South Bronx and founded Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, a community development financial institution which has made $25 million in small loans to low-income families and small businesses in Northern Manhattan.

Rue has served on the boards and councils of charities and advocacy organizations such as the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, National Youth Pride Network, Outright of Maine, Southern Maine Pride, Folsom Street East, Capital Area AIDS Network, and New York Crystal Meth Anonymous. 

They have also served on advisory committees and were a community advisor for the City of New York: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. They are a New York State Peer Specialist with experience in crisis intervention, peer bridging, overdose intervention, and peer counseling. 

Before their mental health and community organizing in New York City, Rue spent over twenty years as a union stage manager working for companies such as the Macy’s Parade and Entertainment Group, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Green Alliance, Walt Disney Entertainment, Busch Gardens, and Seaworld Adventure Parks. They also toured with several theatrical, dance, and musical artists on major tours. 

Rue grew up in Maine and now calls The Bronx, New York City home.

Preeti Pathela is the Executive Director of the STI Program in the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STI at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has overall responsibility for directing, evaluating, and coordinating the activities of the Program, which consists of roughly 70 staff who conduct work in STI program implementation; surveillance and field operations; and epidemiology, research, and evaluation. She serves on the American STD Association’s Board of Directors and as an Associate Editor of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Preeti received a Doctor of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University.

Lynn Schulman grew up in Forest Hills and is a long-time community and LGBTQ activist. With decades of leadership in health care advocacy and progressive causes, Lynn was elected to the City Council because she has a vision for how to bring about the change we need in our Queens communities. An attorney by training, Lynn has devoted her career to public service and held a broad range of executive positions in government, private industry, and the non-profit arena.

In her community, Lynn served as a Vice-Chair on Community Board 6 for more than 20 years. She is also a former member of the 112th Precinct Community Council and the Board of Directors of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Lynn served as an appointed member of the Community Education Council for District 28, where she focused on combating school bullying, increasing student access to music and art programs, and enhancing educational opportunities for the youth in our city’s public school system.

No biography available at time of publication.