The Humphrey School of Public Affairs is pleased to host Dr. Chris Beyrer for a discussion about what it will take to end the AIDS pandemic and why including marginalized populations is essential to achieving such a goal.
As current president of the International AIDS Society, Beyrer has called attention to the critical challenges in the years ahead. He has argued that a wave of discriminatory laws and policies are limiting rights, reducing health care access, and aiding and abetting the virus; and that the treatment gap that leaves so many people who are living with—and dying from—the disease untreated.
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Dr. Beyrer, who also directs the John Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights, is a professor of epidemiology; international health; and health, behavior, and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He serves as director of HIV Training Program in Epidemiology and Prevention Science at John Hopkins University (JHU). He is co-principal investigator of the JHU Center for AIDS Research, CFAR. He is a member of the HIV Prevention Trials Network’s MSM Working Group, and Protocol Chair for HPTN 078. He currently serves as co-chair of the Epidemiology and Natural History Planning Group of the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and serves on scientific advisory committees for UNAIDS and World Health Organization.
Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and training programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, in infectious disease prevention research, HIV vaccine preparedness, in health and migration, and in health and human rights. Dr. Beyrer has been engaged in research, service and advocacy around health and human rights concerns in Thailand, Burma, China, India, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and is the author of over 220 scientific papers.
