Public Service
In 1989, Barnes began working as the AIDS policy director for the New York State Department of Health. In 1992, he was appointed associate commissioner for medical and legal policy at the New York City Department of Health. He was appointed by then-Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to the new National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, which examined issues of ethical conduct in human medical experimentation. Barnes participated in the first-ever White House Conference on HIV and AIDS on December 6, 1995. He has been a consultant for the National Commission on AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Red Cross, and the National Minority Task Force on AIDS.
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