Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. is Director of Communications at the HIV Center, working on a variety of  components of research-community interaction, including as the content manager of the HIV Center's website, editor of its E-Newsletter, and a member of the Development Core and the Global Community Core. Affiliated with the HIV Center since 1993, he has also served as Project Director of research and intervention studies with gay and lesbian youth, serodiscordant couples, and HIV-positive individuals. Currently, he also serves as Associate Program Director of the MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative at Columbia University and UCLA.

Dr. Smith is editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of AIDS (2001) and co-author of three books on AIDS-related themes: Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism (2006), Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation (2002), and HIV Treatments and Mental Health (1999). He has also served as Editor of the community-based HIV/AIDS magazine Body Positive and as Research Director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) in Washington DC.  An Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and New York University, Dr. Smith recently completed editing a volume of primary documents, with commentary, on the politics of sexuality in the United States since 1965.

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