Dr. Auerbach serves as vice president of research and evaluation at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where she is responsible for developing, leading, and managing the foundation’s research, research translation, and program evaluation efforts. Before joining the foundation she was vice president of public policy and program development at The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), and headed its office in Washington, D.C.

She has held senior leadership positions in the Office of AIDS Research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Auerbach received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught, presented, and published in the areas of HIV/AIDS, social science and public policy, and sex and gender.