Daniel Wolfe

Daniel Wolfe, MPH, is Director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society Foundations and an advocate whose work has included community organizing and public media campaigns to repeal discriminatory legislation, boost AIDS funding, and raise the public profile of people with HIV. From 2002-2005, Wolfe was community scholar at the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Joseph P. Mailman School of Public Health; from 2001-2002, he was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University in recognition of his “substantial contribution to the city of New York.”

Formerly the director of communications at GMHC, the largest and oldest AIDS nongovernmental organization in the U.S., Wolfe has written widely on the intersection between drug policy and HIV prevention. He co-authored a working paper commissioned by the HIV/AIDS Task Force of the Millennium Project of the United Nations to examine the effects of UN and national illicit drug policies on the spread of HIV in countries with injection-driven epidemics, and a survey by the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network on the state of HIV and primary care for injection drug users in the former Soviet Union.

He is the author of several books, chapters, and articles in publications including the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, The Nation, and the International Journal of Drug Policy.