Board of Advisors

Martin Delaney
Founding Director, Project Inform

Martin Delaney is the Founding Director and public voice of Project Inform, one of the nation's best-known non-profit foundations working in AIDS.

Martin has served with Project Inform since its inception in 1985. He is an internationally recognized leader of the movement to accelerate FDA approval of promising drugs and was a key player in the development of today's widely used Accelerated Approval regulations and the Parallel Track system for providing experimental drugs to seriously ill people prior to formal approval by the FDA. He was one of the founders of the community-based research movement and through Project Inform led the way to the unprecedented level of HIV treatment education available to both for physicians and patients.

Mr. Delaney has for 15 years been a constructive critic of federal, academic, and industry AIDS research efforts and a featured voice in the media and at scientific conferences on AIDS-related topics. His writings have appeared in such prestigious medical publications as the Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Journal of AIDS, and in a number of popular magazines.

Martin is also the co-author of Strategies for Survival, The Gay Men's Health Manual for the Age of AIDS and editor of the Project Inform HIV Drug Book and most other Project Inform materials; his work and the history of Project Inform have been described in several books, most prominently in Acceptable Risks, by Jonathan Kwitney, but also in Against the Odds, by Peter Arno and Good Intentions by Bruce Nussbaum.

Over the last 15 years, he has spoken before more community, government, and industry groups on AIDS treatment and research issues than any other activist or political figure. He has served on many AIDS-related local and national boards and prominent government advisory groups, and currently serves on the Department of Health and Human Services HIV Treatment Guidelines Panel. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.