Deborah Wafer, RN, NP, PA currently works at Gilead Science Inc. in Public Affairs as an Executive Director in US Virology, where she leads the Public Affairs Community Engagement and Advocacy team that focuses on HIV Treatment/Prevention. She has also worked on the Gilead HIV prevention team as Medical Liaison and Hep C and HIV Community Marketing teams; she is an accomplished marketing professional with demonstrated experience in developing innovative programming and tools designed to engage healthcare providers, staff, and communities. Before she went to Gilead, Deborah worked at Pfizer in New York City in HIV Marketing and as a Community Liaison. While at Pfizer she was a Pfizer Fellow and worked in Uganda for four months with HIV Community Health workers and nurses.
Prior to working in pharma, Deborah was a clinician at UCLA Medical Center in the Clinical AIDS Education and Research Center (CARE Center) where she provided primary care and coordinated clinical trials for people living with HIV. While at UCLA she was instrumental in translating clinical research to the community and patients. One of her career highlights was being a part of the research protocols that decreased HIV transmission from mother to infants. Deborah also worked at the King/Drew Medical Center in the Department of Family Medicine, Community Medicine, and Ob/GYN. She is passionate about women's health and has worked as a lay midwife and home births.
