Expertise
About
James Myhre is an award-winning health writer and HIV educator who has worked with community-based HIV organizations since 1989, including Terrence Higgins Trust in London, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and the Southern African HIV Clinician Society. He has written for CNNfn, Departures, POZ, Advocate, Gay Pages, Exit, OUT, South African Journal of Infectious Diseases, South African Medical Journal, and South African Journal of HIV Medicine.
Myhre previously held a faculty position with the USAID-funded Foundation for Professional Development, participating in South Africa’s historic antiretroviral roll-out as a nurses’ training facilitator and lecturer. As the program coordinator for LifeSense Disease Management, Myhre provided clinical and case management support for over 15,000 people living with HIV in South Africa. He has co-authored and presented research at multiple International AIDS Conferences, the World Bank, and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), among others.
After 17 years in South Africa, Myhre returned to his home state of Texas where he lives with his husband Dennis Sifris, an HIV specialist and founder of South Africa's first HIV clinic at Johannesburg General Hospital.
Education
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communications and Film Studies, Texas Christian University & London Film School