Timothy Frasca, M.P.H. is a Research Project Manager at the HIV Center, directing a study of rapid home HIV testing as a risk-reduction strategy directed by Principal Investigator Alex Carballo-Diéguez. He also collaborates with Dr. Carballo-Diéguez on behavioral aspects of rectal microbicide trials being conducted in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Boston and San Juan.

Mr. Frasca worked as a journalist for 25 years in Washington, D.C. and South America where he filed reports to over 80 print and broadcast news organizations including National Public Radio, The Independent and the BBC. He co-founded the first HIV prevention and services organization in Chile and served as its executive director for seven years. He is the author of AIDS in Latin America (2005) and co-editor of two Spanish-language anthologies on sexual health and HIV. He previously directed the Deep South Project at the New York-based Latino Commission on AIDS promoting HIV prevention and care services among Hispanic immigrants living in the southeastern U.S.

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