
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:
- Vulnerable Populations
- Microbiome in HIV-infected Women and its Impact on Health Outcomes
- 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.
