Event Program

Recordings from each hour of the livestream are available below.

Hour 1: Welcome to the Save AIDS Research Livestream! Why Should We Care about HIV Research?

• Session Hosts: Judy Auerbach & Jeff Wickersham
• The Broad Benefits of HIV Research
  Greg Millett, MPH - amfAR
• Alone and Frightened
  Moses Supercharger - Joint Adherent Brothers and Sisters Against AIDS
• HIV Research: a platform for global solidarity and solution building
  Shashika Bandara, MSc - Duke University

Hour 2: Panel Discussion — The Pipeline in the Balance: Sustaining the Next Generation of HIV Researchers Through Training & Mentorship

• Session Host: Judy Auerbach
• Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH - University of California, San Francisco
• John Sauceda, PhD - University of California, San Francisco
• Allison Agwu, MD, SCM - Johns Hopkins University

Hour 3: Panel Discussion — HIV Clinical Trials and Research Networks

• Session Host: Mitchell Warren
• Myron Cohen, MD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (HPTN)
• Larry Corey, MD - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (HVTN)
• Joseph Eron, MD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (ACTG)
• Sharon Nachman, MD - SUNY Stonybrook (IMPAACT)

Hour 4

• Session Host: Oni Blackstock
• Vaccine Confidence: From trials to delivery
  Heidi Larson, PhD - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Social, Behavioral and Ethical Considerations in HIV Cure Research
  Ali Ahmed, PhD - University of California, San Diego
• HIV Cure Advances
  Katie Bar, MD - University of Pennsylvania

Hour 5: Panel Discussion — Research Advocacy

• Session Hosts: Oni Blackstock & Jim Pickett
• Mary Woolley - Research America
• Georges Benjamin, MD - American Public Health Association
• Dazon Dixon Diallo, DHL, MPH - SisterLove

Hour 6

• Session Host: Mitchell Warren
• Aging Too Soon: The biology and outcomes of children and youth born with HIV
  Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MD - Northwestern University
• Scaling HIV Prevention Efforts for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations Through Mobile Health (mHealth): Insights and Lessons from Malaysia
  Roman Shrestha, PhD, MPH - University of Connecticut
• The Silver Lining to a Dark Cloud: My wonderful life as an HIV clinical study volunteer
  Loreen Willenberg - Zephyr Foundation

Hour 7

• Session Host: Sophia Zamudio-Haas
• HIV and STIs: Intersecting epidemics, novel interventions
  Connie Celum, MD, MPH - University of Washington, Seattle
• Heroin to Health: Global drugs, global diseases, global solutions
  Sunil Suhas Solomon, PhD, MPH - Johns Hopkins University
• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Past, present, future
  Raphael Landovitz, MD - University of California, Los Angeles

Hour 8

• Session Host: Judy Auerbach
• No Place to Go: Displacement and HIV among people who use drugs
  Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD - University of Southern California
• HIV-Related Stigma: Research findings and implications
  Valerie A. Earnshaw, PhD - University of Delaware
• How'd They Do It? Analyzing the Landscape of HIV Criminalization Reform
  Trevor Hoppe, PhD, MPH - University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Hour 9

Panel Discussion — The Future of HIV/AIDS Research: We are not done yet

• Session Hosts: Judy Auerbach & Josh Barocas
• Deborah Persaud, MD - Johns Hopkins University
• Judith Currier, MD - University of California, Los Angeles
• Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH - 6th NIAID Director
• LaRon Nelson, PhD, RN - Yale School of Nursing

Hour 10

• Session Host: Josh Barocas
• Can Inoculation-Based Messaging Protect Against HIV Vaccine Misinformation?
  Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA - University of Pennsylvania
• MAHA, Vaccine Refusal and the Undermining of Community Strategies to Protect the Immune Compromised
  Jennifer Reich, PhD - University of Colorado, Denver
• Investing in Youth, Investing in Impact: Adolescent HIV research in the ATN
  Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH - Florida State University & Sybil Hosek, PhD - University of Illinois, Chicago

Hour 11

• Session Host: Gregg Gonsalves
• Mpox, the Changing Landscape of an Emerging Disease
  Nicole Hoff, MD, PhD - University of California, Los Angeles
• Mpox from 2022 through the Present: Lessons from community embedded research
  Joseph Osmundson, PhD - New York University & Miguel Paredes, PhD - University of Washington, Seattle

Hour 12

• Session Host: Josh Barocas
• Designing Long-acting Antiretroviral Therapy with an Eye on Pharmacoequity
  Rachel Bender-Ignacio, MD, MPH - University of Washington, Seattle
• Integrating Community Wisdom for the Uptake of HIV Interventions
  Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD - Boston University
• How Research has Been and Will be Critical to Improving the Health of Humans with Hepatitis C
  Kara Chew, MD - University of California, Los Angeles

Hour 13

• Session Host: Arjee Restar
• HIV and Tuberculosis–Related NIH-Funded Clinical Research in Peru: Experiences from the PERU Clinical Trials Unit
  Jorge Gallardo Cartagena, MD, PhD - Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas Biomédicas y Medioambientales (Lima, Peru)
• Menopause and HIV
  Sara Gianella Weibel, MD - University of California, San Diego
• Overlapping and Intersecting Epidemics: HIV and overdose
  Joshua Barocas, MD - University of Colorado

Hour 14

• Session Host: Judy Auerbach
• Mission Possible: Ending AIDS and improving community health — the SEARCH approach
  Diane Havlir, MD - University of California, San Francisco
• AI & HIV
  Mike Reid, MD - University of California, San Francisco & PEPFAR
• Delivering HIV Services in War and Conflict Settings: Ukraine
  Andriy Klepikov, PhD - Alliance for Public Health, Ukraine

Hour 15

• Session Host: Rayner Tan
• Interventions with bNAbs - A glimmmer of hope for a cure
  Jesper D. Gunst, MD, PhD - Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark
• Why Sex and Gender Matter to the Basic Science of Curing HIV
  Jessica Prodger, PhD - University of Western Ontario
• From Research to Action: Reducing stigma and improving HIV & mental health outcomes for sexual and gender minorities in India
  Venkatesan Chakrapani, MD, PhD - Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy, India

Hour 16

• Session Host: Rayner Tan
• Chemsex, HIV and Harm Reduction: Towards an integrated response
  Adam Bourne, PhD - La Trobe University, Australia
• Africa-led HIV Prevention Science and Mentoring the Next Generation of African Researchers
  Kenneth Ngure - Kenyatta University, Kenya
• Counting the Cost: Patients' perspectives on PEPFAR aid cut to Zambia
  Wilbroad Mutale and Leah Kamulaza - University of Zambia

Hour 17

• Session Host: Annette Sohn
• Tangerine – Trans-formative Care Model in Bangkok, Thailand
  Jakkrapatara (Fair) Boonruang, MD
• Adolescents Deserve Evidence Too: Closing the research gap in HIV prevention
  Katherine Gill, MBChB, MPH
• The Movement Toward Greater Africa-led HIV Science and the Importance of Global Partnership
  Mumbi Chola, PhD

Hour 18

• Session Host: Cindra Feuer
• Transgender Scorecard
  Cindra Feuer - AVAC
• HIV Treatment Outcomes, Mental Health and Alzheimer's Disease Among People Living with HIV in Asia: Research highlights from the TREAT Asia Network
  Annette Sohn, MD, PhD
• South Africa Medical Research Council: Where an HIV vaccine “fits” into the current paradigm and why it is so important
  Glenda Gray, MBBCH, FCPaed

Hour 19

Panel Discussion — Lenacapavir

• Session Host: Mitchell Warren
• Wesley Sundquist, PhD - University of Utah
• Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, PhD, DCH - Desmond Tutu Foundation
• Yvette Raphael - Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA)

Hour 20

• Session Host: Birgit Poniatowski
• Why Addressing Stigma Should be our Number One Priority in the HIV Response
  Sarah Stutterheim, PhD
• Shaping the Future: An African-Led and Sustainable Scientific Agenda for HIV Prevention in Women
  Nyaradzo Mgodi, MBChB, MMed
• Health in your Hands: The promise of over-the-counter PrEP for HIV prevention
  Lauren Violette, PhD, MPH

Hour 21

• Session Host: Jim Pickett
• Trans-Inclusive HIV Research
  Tonia Poteat, PhD - Duke University
• What Does Aging with HIV Mean in 2025?
  Kristine Erlandson, MD - University of Colorado, Anschutz
• Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Geriatric Syndromes among Older Adults with HIV in Kampala, Uganda
  Phoebe Mbabazi, MD - Makerere University, Uganda

Hour 22

• Session Host: Jeff Wickersham
• We Are Together with You: Integrating care for TB and HIV in high-burden countries
  Luke Davis, MD - Yale School of Public Health
• Experiences of HIV Care in the Context of Climate Change Among Young Sex Workers and Sexually Diverse Men in Kampala, Uganda
  Carmen Logie, PhD, MSW - University of Toronto
• Implementation Opportunities to Expand HIV Prevention and Treatment in People Who Use Drugs
  Frederick Altice, MD - Yale School of Medicine

Hour 23

• Session Host: Oni Blackstock
• HIV and Mental Health
  Robert Remien, PhD - Columbia University
• Getting Research Right: Good Participatory Practice Guidelines – now more than ever
  Stacey Hannah, MHS - AVAC
• How the HIV Reservoir Persists
  Annukka (Annie) Antar, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University

Hour 24

• Session Host: Jim Pickett
• They Don’t Care About Us, But We Care: The chronic power of community love, grief and resistance in and beyond HIV and long COVID
  JD Davids - Patient-Led Research Collaborative, What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective and JD Strategies
• Optimizing Outcomes for Children Exposed to HIV in Utero
  Grace John-Stewart, MD, PhD, MPH - University of Washington, Seattle
• HIV/STI Prevention in Youth Populations: A Community-based approach
  Julia Rosebush, DO, FAAP - University of Chicago

Closing

Closing Remarks and Call to Action