Keynote Speakers

Monica Gandhi

Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV treatment and prevention optimization, long-acting ART and PrEP, HIV and women, and adherence measurement and interventions. 
Teymur Noori

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Expert in HIV and Migrant Health 

Teymur Noori is a psychologist and works at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as an expert on monitoring an evaluation. He is primarily responsible for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals as they pertain to HIV in Europe and Central Asia. Teymur also leads ECDC work on migrant health and infectious diseases. 

Cesare di Feliciantonio

Sapienza University of Rome

Cesare Di Feliciantonio (he/him) is Researcher in Economic and Political Geography at Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in geographies of sexualities, HIV, and housing and urban geographies. He is one of the editors of Social & Cultural Geography. He has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is currently working on a monograph and two co-edited handbooks, including the new Routledge Handbook of Sexualities and Space.
Marit van Gils

Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDept Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention 

Dr. Marit van Gils is focused on understanding how vaccines induce protective antibodies against viral infections, including HIV and more recently, coronaviruses. She completed her Ph.D., and postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam and partly at Scripps Research, San Diego, USA. Her discoveries have informed next-generation HIV vaccine designs.

Jennifer Hoy
Alfred Health and Monash University

Jenny is an Infectious Diseases physician and Director of HIV Medicine at Alfred Health and Monash University. She is active in both patient care and HIV research, especially the understanding of the prevention and management of comorbidities associated with ageing and HIV. She is passionate about quality of care for people with HIV, and Quality of Life experienced by people with HIV. 
Melissa Churchill

Professor of Neurovirology, RMIT University

Melissa Churchill is a Professor of Neurovirology at RMIT University, Australia. Her work utilises novel techniques to define the size, nature, regulation, and impact of the HIV reservoir in the brain. She has 100+ publications including in leading journals and is a Board Member of the International Society for Neurovirology.

David Carter
Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales

Scientia Associate Professor David Carter is an Australian lawyer and researcher in the field of medical and health law at UNSW. David currently leads the Health+Law Research Partnership which aims to improve access to justice and quality of life for those living with Hepatitis B or HIV in Australia.

 
Martin Holt

Professor of Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales

Martin Holt is a Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. He leads a program of research designed to improve HIV prevention and sexual health for gay and bisexual men, non-binary people, and other populations affected by HIV.

James Ward
Director, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health original Health

 Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.

We acknowledge that the conference is being held the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.