15th Annual Women as the Face of AIDS Summit
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Virtual Summit via ZOOM 11:00 Welcome Remarks Opening remarks - Ingrid Floyd, Executive Director Morning Plenary 1:
11:15 am - Update on Women, Girls and HIV including the impact of COVID on Women and Girls – Anisha Gandhi, PhD, MPH
Click here to view presentation Anisha Gandhi, PhD, MPH, is the Acting Assistant Commissioner for the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of HIV, where she oversees New York City’s response to the HIV epidemic. She also serves as the Bureau’s Director of Racial Equity and Social Justice Initiatives, leading efforts to embed a racial equity lens across research, programmatic, capacity building, and evaluation activities, and to advance workforce equity within the Bureau. As an infectious disease epidemiologist and public health practitioner, she has developed and implemented innovative programs and research initiatives to identify and address inequities in HIV and STI testing, prevention, and care among Black, Latino, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities and among individuals engaged in sex work. Dr. Gandhi received her undergraduate and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, her doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. 
11:45 am - "Why Us? Why Now? Anti-Racism for the Long Haul" – Dr. Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
Click here to view presentation Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism). As a social epidemiologist, her work on "race"-associated differences in health outcomes goes beyond documenting those differences to vigorously investigating the structural causes of the differences. She hopes through her work to initiate a national conversation on racism that will eventually lead to a National Campaign Against Racism. Dr. Jones is currently a Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine. She was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1994 to 2000 before being recruited to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Medical Officer in 2000. Her many honors include the Wellesley Alumnae Achievement Award (Wellesley College’s highest alumnae honor, 2018), the John Snow Award (“for distinguished service to the health of the public through outstanding contributions to epidemiology,” Epidemiology Section, American Public Health Association, 2011) and the Chanchlani Global Health Research Award (McMaster University, 2019). Dr. Jones received her BA in Molecular Biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, and both her Master of Public Health and her PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Afternoon Plenary 2:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - "Across the Lifespan from Prevention to Aging" - Panel discussion hosted by Gina Brown, MD; Panelists - Connie Johnson, Nala Toussaint, Raven Lopez and Waheedah Shabazz-El Click here to view presentation 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Recognizing our Honorees: Ms. Dawn Averitt, Lillibeth Gonzalez and Octavia Lewis
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2020 SUMMIT PLANNING COMMITTEE
Nadine Alexander NYCDOHMH Ofelia Barrios Iris House Nichole Benjamin Iris House Dana Diamond Exponents Millicent Freeman NYCDOHMH Ingrid Floyd, Chair Iris House Jennifer Irwin Mt. Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine Octavia Lewis Montefiore Medical Center Michelle Lopez GMHC Krista Martel The Well Project Kimberly Richardson Iris House Tyeirra Seabrook Department of Health Ivy Turnbull AIDS Alliance for Women Deborah Yuelles The Alliance for Positive Change |
