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Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.

Following whispers that Howard Brown Health Center is set to hire a new leader of the organization, as reported last week in Windy City Times, comes news of employment terminations at the agency.

After a particularly rocky period with the controversial Jamal Edwards at its head, Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) seemed poised, if somewhat uneasily, to transition into a new period towards the end of 2012. After nearly a year, questions remain as projects have stalled and a new, permanent CEO has yet to be announced.

Howard Brown Health Center’s (HBHC) former CEO and president Jamal Edwards departed the organization in August 2012, amid a flurry of complaints and questions about his management style and strategies.

In a move that will send ripples throughout Chicago’s LGBTQ community, Howard Brown Health Center announced that two of its key staff members have been placed on paid administrative leave: President/Chief Executive Officer Michael Cook and Chief Financial Officer Mark Joslyn.  The news came through a brief March 30 press release, issued via Leslie Schreiber, […]

Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) recently placed two of its key personnel, CEO/President Michael Cook and CFO Mark Joslyn, on paid administrative leave.  Since then, some hints about the reasons for their ouster have emerged.  The Windy City Times report prompted an open letter from David Ostrow, soon followed by a press release from Michael Cook announcing his resignation; both documents have brought more questions and speculations into the open.  Meanwhile, HBHC’s press releases have also prompted more unanswered questions.

Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) recently went through a major upheaval when it was revealed that the executive director and chief financial officer had allegedly mishandled funds involving the Multi-Center AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) grant, which administers the grant.  This supposed discovery resulted in the departure of its two senior staff, CFO Mark Joslyn and […]

It has now been almost a month since Windy City Times first broke the news that Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) had placed its CEO and CFO, Michael Cook and Mark Joslyn, respectively, on paid administrative leave.  Since then, HBHC has revealed no details about the reasons for its actions, only issuing a series of increasingly cryptic press releases promising further details.