2016 Joint Symposium on HIV Research in Women

The 2016 Joint Symposium on HIV Research in Women is hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for AIDS Research.

The Specific Conference Aims are to:

1. Vulnerable Populations
2. Microbiome in HIV-infected Women and its Impact on Health Outcomes
3. The HIV Continuum of Care across the Lifespan of Women

Confirmed speakers for the HIV in Women Research Symposium include

Vulnerable Populations: Session Leaders Crystal Chapman Lambert, PhD, CRNP, UAB and Mardge Cohen, MD, Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx)

• Abigail Harrison, PhD, MPH, Brown University, "Sustained HIV incidence in adolescents, social behavioral and structural factors"
• Ivan Marbaniang, MBBS, MPH, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-CRS), "Characteristics of HIV-infected transgendered women registered under programmatic conditions in Pune, India"
• Michele Decker, ScD MPH, Johns Hopkins 

Microbiome in HIV-infected Women and its Impact on Health Outcomes: Session Leader Christina Muzny, MD, UAB and Betsy Herold, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Louise Kuhn, PhD, MPH, Columbia University
• Supriya Mehta, PhD, MSPH, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
• Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH, University of Maryland, "The Vaginal Microbiome and the aquisition and natural history of HIV and STIs"

The HIV Continum of Care across the Lifespan of Women: Session Leaders Mirjam-Colette Kempf, PhD, MPH, UAB and Aadia Rana, MD, Brown University 

• Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, UAB, "Various modalities of PrEP and other HIV prevention methods"
• Kenneth Sherr, PhD, MPH, University of Washington, "Health Systems Analysis and Improvement to Address Gender Disparities in HIV Care"
• Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH, Emory Univerity, "Linkages to Care Continuum in incarcerated Populations" 

Date: December 6-7, 2016

Location: Birmingham, AL

Please visit the UAB site here for more information and registration.