Ryan Clary, executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, sits at the helm of U.S. efforts to end the epidemic.
March 5, 2018 • By Casey Halter
March 5, 2018 • By Casey Halter
Eleven years ago, Ryan Clary, a longtime HIV/AIDS advocate for the likes of Project Inform and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, pivoted his professional focus to ending the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) epidemics in the United States.
Clary, 48, is now the executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), where he leads a small but determined staff of health policy experts across the country dedicated to pushing policymakers, public health officials, medical and health care providers and the media to more aggressively address the nation’s liver disease crisis.
“The need is so great, and the resources are so few,” says Clary. “I just felt that there was a real opportunity for me to bring the skills and experience that I had developed in HIV advocacy to try to make an impact.”
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Clary, 48, is now the executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), where he leads a small but determined staff of health policy experts across the country dedicated to pushing policymakers, public health officials, medical and health care providers and the media to more aggressively address the nation’s liver disease crisis.
“The need is so great, and the resources are so few,” says Clary. “I just felt that there was a real opportunity for me to bring the skills and experience that I had developed in HIV advocacy to try to make an impact.”
CONTINUE READING STORY:https://www.hepmag.com/article/advocacy-action-ryan-clary
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