Douglas Brooks + Dr. Otis Brawley
‘We don’t need to reform health care. We need to transform health care. We need to change how we provide it. We need to change how we consume it.’
—Dr. Otis Brawley
OUGLAS BROOKS SERVED AS THE HEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE Office of National AIDS Policy during the Obama Administration as the first openly gay, HIV-positive African American to hold the job. He focused on addressing the health needs of those at higher risk of HIV infection, and is now executive director of community engagement at the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. Dr. Otis Brawley was chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society before becoming a professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins, where he oversees a research effort exploring disparities in cancer rates and outcomes. Over a
