As
Co-Executive Director, Ms. Nichols is responsible for program
development; grant writing and fundraising, policy initiatives and
staff and intern recruitment and supervision. She has a wealth of
experience in community health programs design, development,
implementation, and evaluation. Her policy interests include
development of NGO capacity for HIV/AIDS programming, and debt
cancellation in impoverished nations as a source of funding for
HIV/AIDS control efforts.
Kim has been involved in both New York City and global AIDS
advocacy for the past 20 years and has served in that capacity on many
panels and committees to advance information about the HIV-related
needs of African communities. She has been involved in fundraising and
guiding charitable and development-oriented responses to HIV and other
health crises in Africa for more than 25 years, and has worked for
OXFAM and the Pan American Health Organization, conducting
microbiological research in tropical public health.
Kim represented African Services Committee as the North American
NGO delegate on the UNAIDS programme coordinating board and served on
the communities delegation to the board of the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is currently on the board of Aidspan and on
the advisory board of Keep a Child Alive. She serves on the steering
committee of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program of the New York State
Department of Health.
While at African Services, Kim received her Masters of Public
Health from Columbia University focusing on epidemiology of infectious
disease. She also has a ScM from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in biochemistry and an MS from the New England School of
Acupuncture. A U.S. native, Ms. Nichols speaks Spanish and English.
