Leadership
Terri Ford
Senior Director of Global Policy and Advocacy
Long-time advocate, Terri Ford, currently serves AHF as the Senior Director of Global Policy and Advocacy.
She began her tenure at AHF at Chris Brownlie Hospice in the early 1990's at the Director of Dietray Services and moved on to oversee the design and construction of AHF's state of the in-patient facitity, Linn House. She served as the Administrative Director of Linn House until being asked to launch AHF's new innovative Prevention Division which included the first of it's kind alternative HIV testing and outreach services. She built AHF's testing program into the largest community based testing program in California.
In 2001, she was asked to go to South Africa to find and launch AHF's first clinic outside the Unitied States. In her new position Terri directs and coordinates our worldwide advocacy, global testing and condom/prevention efforts. Terri has served in many different capacities in her nineteen year tenure at AHF. Her recent success in leading the challenging World AIDS Day One Million Test campaign speaks to her many talents. Terri's depth of experience in advocacy, policy setting and mobilization helps to lead AHF to new frontiers in global AIDS control. Terri has been instrumental in building the capacity of our bureaus to lead advocacy efforts in their own regions. No one from AHF has spent more time in the field or worked hands-on within the global bureaus more than Terri. She has traveled extensively since 2001 and has advocated for AHF and it's clients in Geneva, Washington, Europe as well as being deployed more than 30 times to Africa and Asia on assignments.
Terri heads AHF's global Testing and Prevention Committee, is a member of the AHF Global Executive Committee, serves on Senior Management and is a global ambassador for AHF.
Terri also shares her experience working in the field with AHF clients and staff around the globe in her blog. Visit http://www.terrifordahf.net to find out about the great things AHF is achieving worldwide!
