Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. is Director of Communications at the HIV Center, working on a variety of  components of research-community interaction, including as the content manager of the HIV Center's website, editor of its E-Newsletter, and a member of the Development Core and the Global Community Core. Affiliated with the HIV Center since 1993, he has also served as Project Director of research and intervention studies with gay and lesbian youth, serodiscordant couples, and HIV-positive individuals. Currently, he also serves as Associate Program Director of the MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative, an HIV prevention fellowship program in South Africa. In addition, Dr. Smith is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and New York University.

Dr. Smith is editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of AIDS (2001) and of The Politics of Sexuality (2010), a volume of primary documents with commentary about the regulation of sexuality in the United States since 1965. He is co-author of three books on AIDS-related themes: Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism (2006), Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation (2002), and HIV Treatments and Mental Health (1999), and has co-authored HIV/AIDS-related articles in academic journals including The American Journal of Public Health, Women and Health, The AIDS Reader, Journal of AIDS, and The American Journal of Community Psychology.

Dr. Smith has also served as Editor of the community-based HIV/AIDS magazine Body Positive and as Research Director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) in Washington DC. Currently, he is editing a three-volume book set for Praeger Publishers, anticipated in 2013, entitled Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism: Persistent Challenges and Emerging Issues.

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