Jesse Milan, Jr., J.D.
Vice President,
Center for Global Health Convergence

In 2005, Jesse Milan assumed a new leadership role for Constella Group as Vice President for the Center for Global Health Convergence. In this position, he fosters public-private partnership opportunities for Constella in domestic and international arenas, manages Constella's high profile Advisory Board, and serves as Constella's corporate philanthropy officer.

Prior to this position, Milan served as Vice President of Constella's Health Communications Division because of his broad management, public health, and community-based experience. Milan became associated with Constella in 1997, and was hired in 1998 to serve as project director for the, National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) initiative, a contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that Constella won with Milan's help.

Under his direction, Constella built the NPIN project into an expanded service covering HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB, with a new worldwide identity, and a seven-year contract value of more than $70 million. Milan also helped the unit expand its contract offerings to include national services on subjects including smoking, diabetes, adolescent health, violence prevention, smallpox, and safety.

Milan has served in many levels of the public health service continuum. In 2003, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services as co-chair of the newly created CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment. Before joining Constella, he was director of the AIDS Office for the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, where he was responsible for an annual budget in excess of $21 million. He is the current chairman of the board of directors of the Black AIDS Institute, and has also served as Health Department co-chair of the Philadelphia HIV Community Planning Group, chair of the Philadelphia Ryan White Title I Planning Council, and president of three other nationally recognized HIV/AIDS organizations. He is a regular lecturer on an international level on public health policy issues including many live television, radio, and Voice of America appearances. Since 1998, he has completed eight tours to eight different African nations at the request of the U.S. State Department, USAID, academia, and the CDC to promote health awareness and program development. Milan is an attorney who served for six years as chief of staff to the president of Temple University.

Milan earned an undergraduate degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University and a law degree from New York University School of Law. He has been honored numerous times for his public service, most recently in 2006by the Balm in Gilead and in 2004 by the federal Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA).

Select Recent Publications and Presentations

Publications:

• Holtgrave, D., McGuire, J., Milan, J. The Magnitude of Key HIV Prevention Challenges in the United States: Implications for the New National HIV Prevention Plan (accepted for 2007 publication in the American Journal of Public Health)
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006 Is Your Commitment to AIDS Personal? NYANSAPO (magazine of the National Black Justice Coalition) Summer 2006
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006, Twenty-five Years of Servanthood. NASTAD HIV Prevention Bulletin (a publication of the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors), August 2006
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006, Living the Data: Patient issues in HIV Clinical Care and Research, Data Basics (a publication for the Society for Clinical Data Management), Volume 12, No. 1, 2006 Spring
  
  
• Milan, J. 2004, HIV/AIDS Stigma in the Workplace, www.hivatwork.org

Presentations:

• Milan, J. 2006. Promises Kept and Promises Needed: Policy and Funding Issues for HIV/AIDS in America. A Keynote address for the Annual AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City luncheon for World AIDS Day, Kansas City, MO, November 28.
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006. Heartache to HAART: 25 Years of HIV/AIDS in America. An opening plenary keynote address to the 9 th Annual Iowa HIV/AIDS Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 10.
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006. HIV/AIDS Issues for the Black African and Caribbean Diaspora in the U.S.A. A presentation to the HIV/AIDS in the African/Black Diaspora: Addressing the Hidden Epidemic Pre-International AIDS Conference Symposium, Toronto, Canada, August 12.
  
  
• Milan, J. 2006. 40,000 New Infections a Year: Its time to Turn the Tide. A keynote to the Budgeting for an AIDS-Free Nation Congressional briefing session, sponsored by AmFAR, NASTAD and the AIDS Institute, Senators Clinton, Smith and Bingaman, and Representatives Engle and Lee, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, March 1.
  
  
• Milan, J. 2005. Applying and Updating the Traditional Academic Paradigm for Mobilizing and Integrating HIV/AIDS into Academia. A plenary session keynote to the African Council for Distance Education pan-Africa conference at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, S.A. Aug. 9.