Tom Bertrand is currently the Executive Director of AIDS Project Rhode Island and an Associate Member of the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD). Tom has worked in the field of public health for the past eighteen years. Most recently, he was the STD Director at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and prior to that he was the Chief of Communicable Diseases at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Tom has a MPH in epidemiology from the State University of New York and an undergraduate degree in biology from Vassar College.