Kraig Pannell has a vast and long history of being an LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS prevention advocate. Kraig’s public health and health & human services experience includes the designing and implementation of HIV prevention programming, research, the implementation of community led demonstration projects; community mobilization, statewide HIV prevention planning; LGBTQ+ healthcare, health equity, and research.

He is a graduate of Bucknell University and a Fellow of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Association of Schools of Public Health Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership.

Kraig is the Director of the Office of LGBTQ Services for the New York State Department of Health. As such, he is responsible for the development of goals, objectives and implementation plans for LGBTQ+ Health, the development of program policy and standards, data management and the development of initiatives to address the social determinants of health, health equity, and emerging needs within the LGBTQ+ communities in New York State.