Richard Liu
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Richard C. Liu joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as Manager of the B-PAL Program
(Hepatitis B Physicians & Patients Advocacy Liaison) in 2008 serving Asian
communities in Philadelphia, PA
and Washington, DC. He began his career as a
Philadelphia-based community health advocate and leader fighting the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in 1991.
He spent his early years as a professional HIV/AIDS
educator, outreach specialist, HIV testing counselor, and fundraiser for Philadelphia
Community Health Alternatives (PCHA) following years of AIDS activism and
volunteer work. After earning his B.S. from Drexel University
in Corporate Communication in 1994, he became a fundraiser for ActionAIDS. By
1995, Richard founded and became the first Executive Director of ASIAC - AIDS
Services In Asian Communities for its first 3 years. He completed his Master of
Public Health in Community Health Education in 1999 from Temple University
and later that same year became Director of HIV/AIDS Care Services at Valley
Forge Medical Center & Hospital until 2008.
Over the years, he has been affiliated with the
Philadelphia HIV Prevention Planning Group, Ryan White Planning Council of
Philadelphia, the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium, the SafeGuards Project, ACT-UP,
Mayor’s Commission on Sexual Minorities, the Philadelphia Commission on Human
Relations, Bread & Roses Community Fund, Temple University
and more. Richard has served on the Board of Directors of the National Minority
AIDS Council since 1997 and was named Treasurer in 2004. In 1998, Liu was the
recipient of the Community Service Award from the Pan Asian Association of
Greater Philadelphia. He has received other community service awards from the
Philadelphia Gay News and Drexel
University.
