DIH’s Public Health Forum February 12th with guest Tobias Rinke de Wit from PharmAccess
All students are invited to the BUSPH Public Health Forum hosted by the Department of International Health on Wednesday, February 12th. Please share this event with others in the community who may find this of interest.
Development of ARV Resistance and the Implications for HIV Treatment and Prevention Programs
Boston University School of Public Health Forum
Wednesday, February 12th 12:30-1:20pm
Keefer Auditorium in the Boston University School of Medicine
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118
With guest Tobias Rinke de Wit, PhD, Professor Sustainable Healthcare in Resource-poor Settings, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Since 2001, Dr. Tobias Rinke de Wit has been the Director Research at PharmAccess Foundation based in the Netherlands, as well as a Principal Investigator at the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam. He specializes in HIV/AIDS with a focus on affordable diagnostics, HIV epidemiology and HIV drug resistance. Between 1990 and 2000 he was Senior Scientist and Associated Professor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, working on tuberculosis, leprosy, leishmaniasis and HIV/AIDS, and has directed a number of studies involving health insurance in Africa. He is a Professor at the University of Amsterdam in Sustainable Healthcare and Affordable Diagnostics. He directs the PASER study, the largest study of HIV drug resistance in Africa. He will report on the study findings and the implications for HIV treatment programs.
