2004-2005, Tom Cannell and Daniel Berman

Tom Cannell will graduate from Yale in 2006. Formerly a Philosophy major, he now studies the History of Medicine and is writing his senior essay on the history of bereavement. Tom spent two summers working at the HIV/AIDS Task Force of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC. In 2005, CSIS published his paper “Expanded HIV Testing Critical Gateway to HIV Treatment and Prevention Requires Major Resources, Effective Protections” (www.csis.org/hivaids/expandedhivtesting.pdf) . This past summer, Tom studied AIDS bereavement and funerals at the School of Theology and Religion, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In New Haven, Tom runs an AIDS discussion group at Leeway, the Connecticut AIDS Hospice and works as a research assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. Tom has a mother, a sister and a brother, all of whom are really great.