The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) advises the White House and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the US government's response to the AIDS epidemic. The commission was formed by President Bill Clinton in 1995 and each president since has renewed the council's charter. Six members resigned in protest of President Donald Trump's health policies in June 2017, and the remaining ten members were dismissed by Trump on 28 December 2017. While PACHA did not meet in 2018, it was restaffed in 2019 and reconvened in March, June, and October 2019. History The Council was not the first presidential inquiry into HIV. In 1987, Ronald Reagan appointed the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1987–88) to investigate the AIDS epidemic. This was followed by the National Commission on AIDS (1989–1993). Members Current members On Dec. 11, 2018, Secretary Alex Azar of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services nominated Carl Schmid and John Weisman to serve as PACHA co-chairs when the council reconvened on March 14–15, 2019. Schmid is deputy executive director of The AIDS Institute, and a longtime leader and activist on HIV issues. Weisman is the secretary of health for Washington state and past president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers. The current PACHA members are: Former members Through 2018, the HIV.gov website (run by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) was not updated and continued to display two previous PACHA staff: B. Kaye Hayes, MPA, executive director, and Caroline Talev, MPA, public health analyst. Bruce G. Weniger, MD, MPH (original PACHA member 1995–2000) [formal self-introduction 1995-07-27, as archived at Clinton Presidential Library Nancy Mahon JD, PACHA chairperson – senior vice president, M.A.C Cosmetics; global executive director, Mac AIDS Fund David Holtgrave PhD, PACHA Vice-chair – professor and chair, Department of Health, Behavior and Society; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland Ada Adimora MD MPH – professor, School of Medicine, professor of epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jeffrey S. Akman MD – vice president for health affairs, George Washington University; dean, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences Oliver Clyde Allen III – presiding bishop, United Progressive Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches, Atlanta, Georgia Lucy A. Bradley-Springer PhD RN ACRN FAAN – editor, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, associate professor emerita, University of