Rebecca Denison Founder of WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases) Oakland, CA, USA About Rebecca Denison is the Founder of WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases). WORLD is an Oakland-based information, support and advocacy network for HIV-positive women and their loved ones.
Frederic D. Bushman University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA About Dr Bushman is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, and the human microbiome. Click here for more information.
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPHAboutA Dr El-Sadr is Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia University in New York, New York, and the founder and Director of ICAP at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, which is engaged in the design implementation and scale-up of HIV and related programs and research globally. Her research interests…
Frank Mugisha Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) Kampala, Uganda About Mr Mugisha is a Ugandan LGBT advocate and Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize 2011 for his activism. Mugisha is one of the most prominent advocates for LGBT rights in Uganda.…
Dorothy M’bori-Ngacha United Nations Children’s Fund (former) Nairobi, Kenya About Dr M’bori-Ngacha is medical doctor with specialist training in paediatrics, infectious disease, and public health. She has extensive experience as a public health professional working in academia, the public sector, the NGO community, and international organizations. Most recently she was the Senior HIV Specialist on…
Barney Graham NIAID Vaccine Research Center Bethesda, Maryland, USA About Dr Graham is the former deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research has focused on pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccine development for viral diseases. He has studied…
Nicolas Chomont, PhD Université de Montréal–CHUM Research Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada About Dr Chomont is Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Université de Montréal–CHUM Research Center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the characterization of the reservoirs for HIV during antiretroviral therapy. Dr Chomont is overseeing studies to…
Yvette Raphael Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS South Africa About Co-founder of the new Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA) in South Africa and a leader in the country’s HIV prevention movement for young women, Yvette is one of South Africa’s most influential civic leaders and human rights activists. She took…
Alan S. Perelson Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA About Alan S. Perelson, Ph.D., received his B.S. degrees in life sciences and in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) in 1967, and his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He has…
Anthony Fauci National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (former) Washington, DC About Dr Fauci was former Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. He was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose,…