Dr. Clarence S Hall
Dr. Hall has over 40 years of domestic and international public health experience. He served as a volunteer Vice President of Pan African Christian AIDS Network (PACANet) USA from 2009 through August 2011 under the dynamic leadership of the late Rev. Edward Bradley. He has served as a volunteer President from September 2011 to the present. Dr. Hall retired from Africare in December 2011 where he served in different leadership capacities starting in May 2000.. He was the first Director of the HIV/AIDS Unit, Deputy Director and finally Director of the Office of Health and HIV/AIDS at retirement. Dr. Hall led Africare’s efforts to address Health and HIV/AIDS problems in 21 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Between the time Dr. Hall began working for Africare in May 2000 and his retirement in December 2011, Africare’s Health and HIV/AIDS funding grew from about $2 million to over $100 million.
Dr. Hall received a Fulbright Fellowship for study abroad while earning a Doctorate of Public Health Degree in Health Education from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Master of Public Health Degree in International Health and Health Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his under-graduate studies at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama with a major in Chemistry. Dr. Hall has a Health Minister Certificate from the Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC. Dr. Hall began his international career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Eastern Nigeria where he taught physics and chemistry at Ihube Boys Secondary School. He is very active in his own community in health promotion and improving the quality of life. He served on the Advisory Board of the Health Improvement Leadership Team of Howard County and was Vice-President of the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association. He is an ordained deacon, member of the Cathedral Choir and HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator of the Health and Wholeness Ministry at St. John Baptist Church, Columbia, Maryland.