Notes From the Field: Dr. Evan Lyon, HIV Care, and the Crisis in Haiti

Abstract

I first learned about Evan Lyon, MD (Figure 1), from Laurie Dill, a physician at an HIV clinic in Alabama. Dr. Lyon had joined the Alabama practice in 2009 after almost a decade of working in Boston and Haiti. He and Dr. Dill worked together closely on HIV and civil rights work in Alabama as well as on HIV care in Alabama’s Black Belt counties. But events in Haiti intervened, and Dr. Lyon had decided to return to the stricken nation. My own interest in Haiti stemmed from news reports about the earthquake on January 12, 2010, and from my concern about how recent gains in HIV prevention and care in Haiti would be affected by this latest disaster. It seemed an opportune moment to interview Dr. Lyon about his work before and after the earthquake in Haiti.