Ali B. Mansaray

Ali B. Mansaray is the Director of the STD/HIV & Viral Hepatitis Division, Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention & Control, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Ali has over 20 years of experience in public health practice and research, mostly in STD/HIV/AIDS, but including chronic disease prevention and control, behavioral and health services research, policy and management. His baccalaureate education was in Philosophy and the English Language, his master’s in health education, Promotion and Behavior, and his doctoral studies in Health Services Policy and Management. He has extensive experience in program development, implementation, evaluation, management, and oversight, as well as theoretical and applied research. Ali previously worked with DHEC in different program areas, including as Program Coordinator in the Divisions of STD/HIV and Healthy Aging, Program and Evaluation consultant in the Office of Minority Health, and as Evaluator in the Office of Program Evaluation Services. In between, Ali worked as Director of Community Health Promotion and Prevention with the Camden Area Health Education Center, Camden NJ, and as Evaluation and Data analyst on an NIH-funded Faith-based Community Based Participatory Research for Colorectal Cancer Prevention among African Americans in the Midlands of South Carolina. He has served on several Boards of Directors, including that for the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD). Ali is a published poet and a pedestrian philosopher, and is married and blessed with six children.