Terry Anderson

Current

• Communications Officer at Grant Management Solutions Project
• Writer/Editor (Self-employed)

Past

• Program Analyst at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company

Terry Anderson’s Summary

I have the best job in the world -- providing technical assistance to countries to better manage their grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. As the communications officer for the Grant Management Solutions (GMS) project (www.gmsproject.org), my task is to improve governance, communications, and community systems in the response to the world's three most devastating diseases. I travel overseas monthly (20 countries in 2009), oversee the production of about 60 reports a year in various languages, and coordinate external communications for the 350 colleagues who work for the GMS project office.

In previous years I was a freelance writer and editor in hematology, HIV/AIDS, malaria, neurology, oncology, orphan diseases, tuberculosis, pharmacology, drug safety, and drug-drug interaction. I wrote and edited papers for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS (PACHA), Auburn Theological Seminary, the World Bank, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and 30 other clients, including several of the world's leading medical journals.

A strong believer in community service, I am one of 10 people representing all persons on the globe living with HIV, TB, and malaria on the Global Fund board of directors; a weed warrior for Montgomery County, Maryland (i.e., a specialist in invasive plants); a tenor in the Cathedral Voices choir at the Washington National Cathedral; and a trustee of Friends of Liberia, a small nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding Liberia. Before my travel schedule became so hectic I was also a consumer advocate for the National Association of People with AIDS and a docent at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Terry Anderson’s Specialties:

Publications (reports, proposals, grants, success stories, human interest articles, international public health), AIDS and tuberculosis activism, interpersonal communication.

Terry Anderson’s Experience

• Communications Officer

  Grant Management Solutions Project

  (International Affairs industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  I work with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) providing technical assistance to countries to better manage their grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. I travel overseas at least once a month. I write and edit documents of all sorts and work directly with international officials to find the most efficient ways of getting life-saving drugs to the people who need them. My work often involves ensuring that grants in excess of $30 million are being implemented properly.

• Writer/Editor

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

  January 1992 — Present (18 years )

  A writer and editor in the sciences and macroeconomics, my writing and editing skills encompass scientific papers, human interest articles, proposals, and conference proceedings in hematology; HIV/AIDS; malaria; neurology; oncology; orphan diseases; tuberculosis; and pharmacology, drug safety, and drug-drug interaction (particularly antiepileptics, NSAIDS, anticholinergics, anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, beta-blockers, chemotherapeutic agents, contraceptives, corticosteroids, and GABAa agonists).
  
  Four articles (“Leukapheresis,” “Multiple Myeloma,” “Myelodysplastic Syndromes,” and “Urethral Cancer”) carry my byline in the 2008 edition of the Salem Encyclopedia of Cancer and two articles (“Bretton Woods Agreement” and “U.S. Agency for International Development”) will appear in the 2009 Historical Encyclopedia of American Business and Finance.

• Program Analyst

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

  March 1988 — February 1990 (2 years )

  My work examined the government's broad-range needs to recruit and train highly skilled engineers and scientiests through 2020.

Terry Anderson’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  B.S. , Biology

Additional Information

Terry Anderson’s Websites:

• My Company

Terry Anderson’s Groups:

American Medical Writers Association, Council of Science Editors

Terry Anderson’s Honors:

Published in The Washington Post, Science Editor magazine, WorldView magazine, Salem Encyclopedia of Cancer (2008), Historical Encyclopedia of American Business and Finance (2009).

Terry Anderson’s Contact Settings

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