3:00–5:30 p.m.

doors open, 2:30 p.m.

Hiebert Lounge
72 East Concord Street
Boston

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#EradicatingAIDS #WorldAIDSDay

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Cohosted with the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research.

Bicknell endowed this annual lectureship to provide “a periodic but regular infusion of iconoclasts and original thinkers who will bring ideas to students and faculty that stretch, upset, stimulate, and leave us with renewed energy and commitment to make a real difference in the lives of the poor and the underserved.”

In conjunction with World AIDS Day, this panel will explore the possibility of, and real challenges in, eradicating AIDS at a global level. The discussion will include experts on implementation science, activists, and more.

In memory of William J. Bicknell, founder and chair emeritus of the Department of Global Health.

Agenda

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

OPENING REMARKS

Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea), Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Robert Horsburgh, Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Jonathan Mermin, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP); Rear Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service

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Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, is Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at CDC, and a Rear Admiral in the United States Public Health Service. Previously, he was Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at CDC. Prior to that, he was the Director of CDC-Kenya for 3 years, and the Director of CDC-Uganda for 7 years. He has co-authored over 200 scientific articles. Dr. Mermin was an internal medicine resident at San Francisco General Hospital, and a preventive medicine resident at CDC and the California Department of Health Services. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford University School of Medicine, and received his MPH from Emory University.

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Izukanji Sikazwe, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

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Izukanji Sikazwe is an infectious disease physician, HIV program expert, and clinical researcher whose work has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She served as HIV Technical and Policy expert within the University of Maryland programme in Zambia, and was seconded for two years to provide technical assistance within the National Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Programme of the Government of the Republic of Zambia. She is an active member of multiple government Technical Working Groups, a valued mentor and educator of medical trainees and Masters-level students at the University of Zambia School of Medicine, and practices clinical medicine at the Adult Infectious Disease Centre of Excellence at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka.

Izukanji graduated with an MBChB degree from the UNZA School of Medicine and completed internship at University Teaching Hospital. She then completed Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Disease fellowship at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore and the University of Maryland, USA. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from Michigan State University, USA.

Douglas M. Brooks, Executive Director, Community Engagement, Gilead Sciences (SSW ’99)

Helen Ayles, Professor of Infectious Disease and International Health, Director of Research Zambart Project, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Gary Daffin, Executive Director, Multicultural AIDS Coalition

4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

MODERATED DISCUSSION AND Q+A

Moderator: Susan Cu-Uvin, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of Global Health Initiative, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, and Professor of Medicine at Brown University, and Director of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

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