Day 1

My first experience working with the Ryan White foundation was an interesting one. After several attempts to meet with Gary Race, my supervisor, I finally just decided to go by his office in IIHHS. Walking into his office was a bit awkward, since we had never met before but I introduced myself anyways and asked about the proposals. He pointed to a stack of binders and papers and said "have at it", printed me off a bunch of evaluation sheets, and explained that he wanted me to read the proposals and evaluate them based on the RFP guidelines. I decided to tackle this pile one proposal at a time (since they were about 100 pages in length) and took the stack with me to my car and left. My next post will talk about my first experience reviewing and reading a medical related proposal.