Michael Allerton attended UC Davis as an undergraduate and then began work as a nighttime orderly at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek. Allerton quickly moved up at the hospital, first as a lab technician then as a health educator. As a health educator, and a gay man, Allerton was one of the first employees in Kaiser Permanente to push for a serious education program in the wake of the emerging AIDS crisis of the early 1980s. Throughout much of that decade he developed educational materials and presented talks that encouraged his audiences to approach the AIDS epidemic in a rationale and caring manner. Allerton earned a graduate degree in medical ethics and then moved into the position of HIV Operations Policy Leader. In this interview, Allerton discusses the response of Kaiser Permanente to the AIDS epidemic as well as his career in health education and policy. Approximately 8 hours, 30 minutes; video interview conducted by Martin Meeker.