Program

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD is an infectious diseases epidemiologist who recently co-led the CAPRISA 004 clinical trial -- the first to demonstrate efficacy of a topical microbicide for HIV prevention. Her main research interests include understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa; factors influencing acquisition of HIV infection in young women; sustainable strategies to introduce HAART in resource-constrained settings ...

Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, earned her general medical degree and Masters in Obstetrics and Gynecology degree from the University of Nairobi. She then earned an MPH and PhD from the University of Washington’s Department of Epidemiology. She is a Chief Research officer at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in addition to holding ...

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Gandhi completed her M.D. at Harvard Medical School and then came to UCSF in 1996 for residency training in Internal Medicine. After her residency, Dr. Gandhi completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, both at UCSF. ...

Glenda Gray, MBBCH, FCPaeds (SA) is the executive director of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit and Associate Professor of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Director of HVTN Africa Programs. She is based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto, South Africa.
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Angela Kashuba, PharmD received her Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto in 1990, and her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from SUNY Buffalo in 1995. She completed a residency at Women’s College Hospital, and a pharmacology research fellowship at the Clinical Pharmacology Research Center at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, NY.

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Rupert Kaul, PhD completed his clinical training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto in 1995, and was then a research fellow at the Universities of Nairobi and Oxford for several years. He completed a PhD and returned to Toronto in 2002 as a clinician-scientist. He currently runs a research lab at the University of Toronto ...

Kimberly Smith (Rush Medical College) will give a talk on Social and structural Correlates of Risk for Women

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Kathleen E. Squires, MD is professor of medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Thomas Jefferson University. Prior to joining Thomas Jefferson University Dr. Squires was an associate professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She was also the associate chief for HIV affairs, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Keck School of Medicine and the medical director of the HIV Clinic of the LAC/USC Medical Center. ...