Stephen J. Fallon, Ph.D.

Experience:

Skills4, Inc.

President August 2000 to present

  • Maintain an active portfolio of over 20 local and national clients working in HIV prevention, support services and medical care.
  • Provide on site capacity building assistance in model disease prevention program selection, implementation, and staffing to community agencies and clinics.
  • Provide infrastructure services to community based organizations, clinics, and health departments: strategic planning, organizational development, needs assessment, human resources, policies and procedures.
  • Provide grant writing services to two dozen accounts each year.
  • Review grant applications for CDC, State Departments of Health, and regional funding councils.
  • Provide regional and national grant writing trainings. Doubled to quadrupled agency size for many small community-based organizations served.
  • Secured new funding streams ($100K-$2.5M each) for clients nationwide.
  • Provide prevention marketing print media technical assistance to community-based organizations and state health departments to increase screening and access to care, and to build efficacy for behavioral change.
  • Provide direct treatment and behavioral science trainings to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and educators working in: HIV/STD treatment, epidemiology and prevention, best practices in diagnosis of disease amongst disproportionately impacted populations (HIV rapid testing, HPV screening and vaccination, hepatitis screening A and B vaccination, hepatitis C treatment).
  • Provide community health seminars in disease state management, new treatment strategies, and disease prevention strategies, primarily focused on HIV, communicable hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and tobacco cessation.
  • Provide research and evaluation services to track emerging risk trends and to document behavioral outcomes of prevention or screening programs.

Some current and past clients are listed below. Hyperlinks are shown for those that maintain updated websites:

  • Center for HIV, Hepatitis and Addiction Training and Technology, a.k.a. Danya Institute: HRSA Technical Assistance Project Director; SAMHSA on-line prevention curricula writer/editor, outreach competency trainer, conference planner.
  • PROCEED--National Center for Training, Support, and Technical Assistance capacity building consultant: organizational development; effective behavioral intervention program implementation; board evelopment; fundraising development; prevention case management implementation and evaluation, strategic planning.
  • Border Health Foundation capacity building consultant: model program implementation; needs assessment design and management.
  • Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum capacity building consultant, grant writer.
  • Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services consultant in strategic planning for six-city national organization.
  • Florida Department of Health program development trainer, program evaluation consultant, prevention media evaluator, epidemiological researcher.
  • Michigan Department of Health HIV treatment trainer, department conflict resolution trainer, hepatitis treatment trainer, healthy relationship issues trainer.
  • Texas Department of State Health Services grant reviewer, HIV treatment trainer.
  • Workers' Assistance Program prevention best practices trainer, treatment lecturer.
  • South Carolina State Department of Health HIV and STD prevention and treatment trainer.
  • Iowa Department of Public Health HIV prevention conference trainer, HIV grantsmanship consultant.
  • ALERT Health grant writer, program development consultant
  • Youth Expressions consultant in program development, grant writing, and evaluation.
  • Legacy Clinic HIV treatment and social support trainer.
  • National Minority AIDS Council grant writer, trainer; capacity building consultant: organizational development and program development consultant.
  • U.S. Office of Minority Health program development consultant and trainer, researcher, grant writer.
  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition prevention program consultant, grant writer.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hepatitis advisory panel, HIV capacity building grants review panel, HIV prevention program grants review panel.
  • Gilead Sciences speaker’s bureau: lipoatrophy, treatment regimen simplification, early intervention strategies.
  • Abbott Virology speaker’s bureau: treatment strategies, adherence management, treatment resistance epidemiology, special populations, and disclosure issues.
  • GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines speaker’s bureau: at-risk adults, travel vaccines, hepatitis vaccine.
  • Mountain Plains AIDS Education & Training Center prevention and treatment trainer.
  • Midwest AIDS Education & Training Center prevention and treatment trainer.
  • St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital HIV treatment trainer, behavioral change trainer.
  • Broward, Miami-Dade, and Orange County School Boards: health education curriculum consultant.
  • The AIDS Institute peer professional trainer.
  • His Great Commission grant writer, program development consultant.
  • South Beach AIDS Project evaluator, grant writer, capacity building advisor, facilitator.
  • Hispanic Unity of Florida model program intervention trainer, HIV rapid testing program trainer, grant writer, program evaluator.
  • Bayer Diagnostics, previously Visible Genetics: speaker’s bureau: treatment resistance issues.
  • Comprehensive Care Network: grant writer, program development consultant.
  • Glades Health Initiative: prevention case management evaluation consultant.
  • Miracle of Love grant writer, prevention and social services program development consultant.
  • AIDS Help, Inc. grant writer, program development consultant.

OTHER Employment Experience:

  • Latinos SaludJune 2008 to present

Executive Director (part-time)

Founded, incorporated as non-profit and secured first three years’ funding for this agency serving Latino YMSM, to take the place of program abandoned by the then-funded CBO in the county. Continue to serve with infrastructure and behavioral guidance, part-time.

  • Pride Center (previously known as Gay & Lesbian Community Center of South Florida)

Outreach Director (part-time)July 2001 to January 2004

Wrote grants to triple agency’s HIV prevention funding. Managed seven staff member Mpowerment-based outreach team, as well as an Internet based prevention intervention. Developed social marketing campaigns, facilitated treatment workshops.

  • Community HealthCare/CenterOne, Inc

Director of Education and OutreachJanuary 1995 to November 2000

Developed, marketed, and facilitated CenterOne’s outreach and public relations efforts. Brought in over $1M new funding, enlarging department to 11 fully-funded positions. Developed, wrote, and produced new educational media, including nationally-distributed videos, and award winning health promotion campaigns.

National/Regional Presentations & Publications:

Presented over 300 plenaries and workshops at peer professional conferences; including

  • National Minority AIDS Council US Conference on AIDS
  • Centers for Disease Control National HIV Prevention Conference
  • CDC National STD Conference
  • Ryan White National Youth Conference
  • National Minority AIDS Council HIV Prevention Leadership Summit
  • Association of Nurses in AIDS Care annual meeting
  • AmFAR National HIV/AIDS Update Conference
  • Healthy Teen Network annual meeting
  • It’s All About MEE (Minority Empowerment and Education) conference
  • CDC National HIV Leadership Conference
  • National Association of Persons with AIDS Staying Alive Conference
  • Keeping It Real Conference
  • Gay Men’s Health Summits (national LGBT Health, and SE Regional)
  • National Symposium on Overcoming Barriers
  • and various State and regional Health conferences

A full listing of these presentations can be found at

Have published over 150 research articles, editorials, science articles, and stories in national magazines and academic journals, as well as local newspapers:

Peer reviewed journals:

Lieb S, Thompson D, Misra S, Gates G, Duffus W, Fallon S, Liberti T, Foust E, Malow R, and the Southern AIDS Coalition Team. “Estimating Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Southern United States.” In Press, 2009 Journal of Urban Health

Lieb S, Thompson D, Santana A, Liberti T, Maddox M, Bush T, Fallon S. Men Who Have Sex with Men: Racial/ethnic Disparities in Estimated HIV/AIDS Prevalence at the State and County Level, Florida.” AIDS and Behavior, 1090-7165, 2009;13(4):716-23,

Lieb S, Trepka MJ, Thompson D, Arons P, Liberti T, Maddox L, Metsch L, LaLota M, Fallon S “Men Who Have Sex With Men: Estimated Population Sizes and Mortality Rates by Race/Ethnicity, Miami-Dade County, Florida.”Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes46(4):485-490, December 1, 2007.

Community magazines and newspapers (1995 to 2006):

Positively Aware, Art & Understanding, The Sun Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), Chicago Free Press, Journal of College Literature, The Express, MiamiGo, New York Blade, Stonewall Network News, Bay Windows, Washington Blade, Outlook, Dallas Voice, Out Front, Houston Voice, TexasTriangle, Southern Voice, Pittsburgh Out News, Update, Front Page, Peoples Chronicle Ohio, Pillar of the Community, Frontier News Magazine.

Academic Experience:

University of Florida, Visiting Lecturer, Summer, 1994.

Clemson University, Instructor on Faculty, August 1992 to June 1994.

University of Florida, Graduate School Teaching Intern, August 1986 to June 1992.

Won every teaching award available during tenure at both universities. Earned highest student evaluations on record.

Education:

Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Communications), University of Florida, August 1993. G.P.A. 3.84

Dissertation: Stopping the Assembly Line of Meaning (359 pages).

This award-winning study (University Fellowship) creates a new model for community and classroom education, through the synthesis of rhetoric, pedagogy, and business management strategies. Examining today’s social marketing and pedagogy paradigms, Stopping introduces theoretical protocols and templates to create effective educational programs in any discipline.

University of Florida, Masters in English, May 1989, 3.84 G.P.A.

Boston College, B.A. in English and Economics (double major) May 1984, G.P.A. 3.371

Related health Work:

  • Board of Advisors,South Beach AIDS Project, September 2003 to present. Co-Chair, Board of Directors December 2000 to 2003; Board member since July 1998.
  • Co-Chair, Broward Community Planning Partnership, November 1999 to 2003. Serving District X in Florida, a region with the nation’s 5th highest AIDS rate.
  • Host Committee Member,15th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference, October 2002 to March 2003.
  • Abstract Chair and Core Group Planning Member, Southeast Regional Gay Men’s Health Summit 1, 2, and 3, June 2000 to October 2004.
  • Co-Chair, Abstract Review Committee,United States Conference on AIDS, 2001. Co-Chair, Prevention Track programming, January 2001 to September 2001.
  • Board Member, Global Focus Films, non-profit advocacy agency, 2001 to present.

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