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# Ace Robinson

Founder & Principal · Cape Town, South Africa

## Biography

Equity Is the Word Founder & Principal, Ace Robinson, is a leading administrative and policy communicable disease advocate and population health expert. He serves as the Acting Director of Duke University’s Sexual & Gender Minority Wellness program while supporting communities disproportionately impacted by HIV, STI’s, mpox, COVID-19, tuberculosis, malaria, and associated illnesses. Robinson is also the Founder & Principal of Equity Is the Word, a global health equity consulting firm focused on bringing systemic changes to historically excluded key population who experience poorer health outcomes. He sits on the UCLA Center for HIV, Identification, Prevention & Treatment (CHIPTS) steering committee; UCSF’s Regional Advisory Board for their Health Equity Collaborative; and on the Coalition for TB Free California steering committee.

Ace has previously served in senior leadership roles at the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in Washington, DC, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York City, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles), Partners in Health in Haiti, the Desmond Tutu Health (formerly HIV) Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, and PCAF (Seattle, WA). Ace has also served as Chair of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) and Chair of the Council to Eliminate Anti-Black Racism at Brown University. Robinson holds a master’s degree in healthcare leadership from Brown University, a master’s degree in public health from the University of Cape Town, and a bachelor’s in chemistry from Duke University.

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