More than 30 years after the advent of HIV/AIDS, healthcare workers are still lacking in awareness, education and training about the threat of bloodborne pathogen exposure from needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries. Joining other notable sharps safety and occupational health experts across the country in championing an ongoing safety agenda is Mary Foley, PhD, RN, chairperson of the non-profit organization Safe in Common (SIC). Foley is the director of the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. A registered nurse for more than 35 years, Foley was one of the first healthcare workers to combat the emerging HIV-AIDS epidemic during her work at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco during the 1980s.