Prevention Equity: Uptake of Innovations in Testing, Prevention, Reducing Incidence
Nittaya Phanuphak, Thailand
Dr Nittaya Phanuphak is an HIV dermatologist with extensive experience in HIV clinical trials, specialising in HIV prevention and sexual health. Currently Chief of the Prevention Department at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Dr Phanuphak has a broad expertise in conducting large clinical trials involving local and international collaborators and stakeholders. She started the country’s first Test and Treat study among Thai men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women in 2012. The study has evolved into a community-led model and PrEP study that has enrolled 6,000 MSM, male sex workers and transgender women in 2015. Dr Phanuphak has more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
TB and Co-Infections, Co-Morbidities: The Long Game
Anton Pozniak, United Kingdom
Dr Anton Pozniak ran the HIV research unit at King’s College, London before moving to his current position as Consultant Physician/Senior Lecturer at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1998, where he is an Executive Director of HIV Research and the Director of HIV Services. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996 and has been made a life member of the British HIV Association. Dr Pozniak was an advisor on HIV and AIDS to the UK Government Health Select Committee and is on the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS for the UK Department of Health. He is an Executive Member of the European AIDS Clinical Society and on the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society.
Toward an HIV Vaccine
Larry Corey, United States
Dr Larry Corey has led some of the most significant advances in medicine in the last 30 years, including the development of safe and effective antivirals for herpes viruses and HIV infections. As former President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he helped drive lifesaving discoveries across an even broader spectrum of diseases. Dr Corey is currently a Principal Investigator of the Fred Hutch-based HIV Vaccine Trials Network, the largest international effort dedicated to developing an HIV vaccine. Besides his appointment at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he is currently a Professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington.
Youth Focus: Adolescents at Risk and in the Lead
Tariro Makadzange, Zimbabwe
Dr Tariro Makadzange is a physician scientist whose research focuses on perinatally HIV-infected children and adolescents, as well as HIV-positive adults with cryptococcal disease. An Instructor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Dr Makadzange is also an Assistant in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences. She is also a Consultant Physician and the Co-director of the Family Care Centre at the Parirenyatwa Hospital, which is one of the largest public HIV treatment centres for children and adults living with HIV in Zimbabwe.
Michael Ighodaro, Nigeria
Michael Ighodaro is a Nigerian activist and a passionate advocate for LGBTQ rights and HIV prevention. Michael had to flee his country after he was attacked due to his sexual orientation, work in HIV prevention and gay activism. Openly living with HIV himself, he is currently the Programme and Policy Assistant for AVAC, an organisation that advocates for HIV prevention to end AIDS. In response to the anti-homosexual law passed by Former President Goodluck Johnathan, Michael helped organise a Global Day of Action in protest of this law, which was also staged in front of Nigerian consulates in many cities all over the world. He has also worked with Housing Works and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (now Out Right Action) in New York. Michael is a member of several HIV/LGBT advocacy groups in Africa. He has spoken before the United Nations, the US Congress and State Department. In 2015, Michael was honoured as a White House Champion of Change for World Refugees. His work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, New York Times and several UN news outlets. Michael is currently a student at The American Public University.
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