Tuesday, October 4, 2016
1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT
via Legacy (WHRC)
Meeting Description:
In recent years, the scientific community has made great strides toward finding a cure for HIV. Activists and advocates are rightfully excited about these developments, but many questions remain about what a cure will entail and how the science might reach different populations and communities. While cure research has generated exciting results, it is crucial that these results include and are relevant to all people with HIV. Women, however, are often excluded or otherwise left out of HIV cure efforts. The members of the Women’s HIV Research Collaborative (WHRC) believe that cure research must include women—cisgender and transgender alike—in order to produce results that are applicable and meaningful to women. In this spirit of sisterhood and the meaningful involvement of people with HIV, the WHRC has assembled a diverse group of expert women working in community advocacy, biomedical research, and bioethics to guide us through this three-part webinar series.
Part 1: Where are We? Women in the HIV Cure Landscape
Presenters will provide an overview of current HIV cure research with an emphasis on sex and gender. They will explain the importance of considering sex and gender when designing and implementing cure studies as well as the potential clinical and community impact when sex- and gender-specific questions are not included. By the end of this webinar, attendees will
- Understand key terms in HIV cure research
- Have learned about the major developments in HIV cure research and what remains unknown
- Be able to describe the importance of considering sex and gender in HIV cure research
Presenter Information:
Katy Godfrey: Dr. Godfrey is a medical officer at the Division of AIDS. She is an infectious diseases specialist and venereologist. She has been taking care of people affected by HIV since the early days of the epidemic in San Francisco, her native New York, Auckland (New Zealand), and now Washington, DC. She is interested in HIV treatment research, particularly for hard-to-reach or hard-to-treat groups of people, both in the US and abroad. She cooks and has cats.
Danielle Campbell: Danielle M. Campbell, MPH, is the current chair of Los Angeles Women’s HIV/ AIDS Task Force. The focus of Danielle’s work has been examining the influence of systems of power and the production of health disparities among people living with HIV/ AIDS (PlwHA). As such, Danielle dedicates her energy to serving as a community scientific subcommittee member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group; a as a volunteer HIV tester/ counselor aboard a mobile testing unit; as an educator and promoter of positive sexual health, and community organizer for HIV/ AIDS awareness policies and campaigns.
Susan E. Cohn, MD, MPH: Dr. Cohn is a Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She is an expert in HIV medicine, infectious disease and HIV clinical health services outcomes research. She has been an active participant in the NIH/NIAID AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) since 1988, and has held numerous leadership positions within the ACTG including Vice Chair and Chair of the Women’s Health Committee and the Outcomes Committee, Vice-Chair of the Underrepresented Populations Committee, and the Chair of the Women’s Health Internetwork Scientific Committee. She has been an active member of the DHHS Perinatal Guidelines Working Group. Her current research areas include improving contraception options for women with HIV, testing a stigma reduction intervention among African-American women with HIV, optimizing antiretroviral adherence, and enhancing recruitment and retention of women and underserved populations in HIV clinical trials.
Brian Minalga, MSW (host)
Project Manager, The Legacy Project
Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
Coming up...
- Tuesday, October 25 | Part 2: What Cure Means to Women, What Women Mean to Cure
- Thursday, November 17 | Part 3: Barriers and Facilitators to Women’s Participation in Cure Research
The Women's HIV Research Collaborative is a working group of the Legacy Project at the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination.
