Victor F. Zonana was the deputy assistant secretary for public affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Donna Shalala and President Bill Clinton.
[1] Before that, he was a special staff writer with the Los Angeles Times, covering business, economics, insurance, banking and health care issues, and was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal.
Zonana is a co-founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
[1] In 2002, Zonana co-founded Global Health Strategies globalhealthstrategies.com, a communications and advocacy firm.
In 2019, he was named a Sir Edmund Hillary Fellow and shortly thereafter co-founded Global Health New Zealand.