Manhunt Cares

Who’s this guy and what does he have to do with healthier hook-ups?

Healthier hook-ups
by Ethan Jacobs
associate editor
Thursday May 7, 2009

David S. Novak brings to Manhunt his experience in developing online health outreach to gay men in his prior work at the Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Source:Melissa Ostrow)

David S. Novak brings serious public health credibility to his new role as coordinator of Manhunt Cares, the men’s health offshoot of the Cambridge-based hook-up site Manhunt.net.

From 2004 to 2007, while serving as syphilis elimination coordinator at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), he literally wrote the book on online STD outreach to gay men, pioneering the department’s work in doing outreach to Manhunt members and authoring a guide on Manhunt outreach for use by other states and agencies. He moved on to serve as national syphilis elimination coordinator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he continued promoting online outreach as a means to prevent HIV and other STD infections among gay men.  Read more.