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Awards and Recognition Archives
Fall 2008 Statewide / Regional / National
& International
Michigan Awards
See also 2008 STD & HIV Conference
Michigan AIDS Fund Presents Awards at Friends of the
Fund Reception
Photo left to right: Brian Malkowski, Leon Golson, Joy Schumacher and
Glenn Kossick
The Michigan AIDS Fund, in its last chapter as an independent organization,
presented awards to four individuals who have a long history of providing
service to the cause of eliminating HIV and AIDS in Michigan. MAF Executive
Director David Coulter presented the awards at the Friends of the Fund
Reception, just prior to the World of Desserts event held in Detroit on December
4.
Brian Malkowski received his Michigan AIDS Fund 2008 Leadership Award for
Volunteerism. For more than fifteen years he has “embodied the spirit of
volunteerism in America” serving at AIDS Partnership Michigan primarily working
on the statewide HIV/AIDS Hotline.
Leon Golson was presented the MAF 2008 Leadership Award for his work in
non-profits. He “reflects the newer generation of people, more savvy and more
adaptive to changing times, the reality of the disease striking new at-risk
populations, and who are able to see that newer methods must be adopted to help
stem the tide of new infections.”
Golson began his HIV/AIDS prevention work at the American Red Cross Southeast
Michigan Blood Services as a test counselor and was Michigan’s first instructor
trainer in the Red Cross HIV/AIDS African American Instructor program. He then
moved to the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project, where he developed several
targeted interventions for African American MSM. In 2007 he became the director
of Prevention Services for the HIV/AIDS Resource Center, which now provides
services for Washtenaw, Jackson and Livingston counties.
Joy Schumacker was given the MAF 2008 Leadership Award for her work in
public health. “For those of us working in non-profits through much of the AIDS
crisis, finding sympathetic, caring and passionate allies in local public health
has always been something of a challenge. Yet, every so often someone has
stepped forward to help us bridge the gap between front line agencies and access
to the existing health and social service network for the betterment of our
clients.
“As the HIV/STD coordinator for the Oakland County Health Department – long
one of the epicenters of the epidemic in southeast Michigan – Joy was an early
ally of the gay community, first of the population groups to be hard hit by
AIDS. During her long years of service [before her retirement in June 2008,] she
served on many committees and task forces as we all tried to comprehend and come
to grips with the scope of this disease.”
Glenn Kossick was presented the MAF 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Innovative interventions, cutting edge programs, effective collaboration and
serving the most vulnerable populations are all [catch phrases] with which most
non-profits are familiar…these have been at the heart and soul of a man who
lived, breathed and believed that well-run non-profits could make a difference.
And who made his life a continuous passion of reaching underserved and at-risk
populations, achieving social justice and balancing the scales of opportunity
for the benefit of all.
“It was this same passion and commitment that has made Glenn Kossick one of the
great forces and agents of change in the world of HIV/AIDS in Michigan. From his
service on the National AIDS Fund Board of Directors to his work as the longtime
executive director of the Metro Health Foundation, and most especially as
trustee and President of the Michigan AIDS Fund Board, Glenn has striven to
bring best practices, effective grant making and support of cutting edge
programming into the fight against [HIV/AIDS]. He was an early, long and strong
advocate of MAF funding syringe exchange programs.
National and International Awards
"Three Europeans Win the 2008 Nobel for Medicine"
New York Times (10/6/08) Lawrence K. Altman
Three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause
cervical cancer and
AIDS share this year’s
Nobel Prize in medicine. A German virologist, Harald zur Hausen,
will receive half the award for his discovery of
H.P.V., the human papilloma virus, according to the announcement made on
Monday by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which selects the medical
winners of the prize. The discovery led to development of a vaccine against
cervical cancer, the second most common
cancer among women.
The institute said the other half of the award will be shared equally by
two French virologists, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc
Montagnier, for discovering H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. Since
its discovery in 1981, AIDS has rivaled the worst epidemics in history. An
estimated 25 million people have died, and 33 million more are living with
H.I.V.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07nobel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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