Writing Committee

Evan Wood, MD, PhD (Chair)
Director, Urban Health Research Initiative
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Canada

Frederick L. Altice, MD
Professor of Medicine & Director of Clinical and Community Research
Yale University School of Medicine
USA

Dennis Altman AM, FASSA, MA
Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
Director, Institute for Human Security
Australia

Judith D. Auerbach, PhD
Vice President, Science & Public Policy
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
USA

Anurita Bains
Senior Advisor, Office of the Executive Director
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Switzerland

Prof. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, PhD
Nobel Laureate
Professor and Head, Unit of Regulation of Retroviral Infections, Department of Virology
Institut Pasteur, Paris

Damon Barrett
Senior Human Rights Analyst
International Harm Reduction Association
Australia

Jacqueline Bataringaya, MD, MA
Senior Policy Adviser
International AIDS Society
Switzerland

Chris Beyrer, MD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA

Maria Patrizia Carrieri, PhD
Researcher
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
France

Grant Colfax, MD
Director of HIV Prevention and Research
San Francisco Department of Public Health
USA

Marcus Day, DSc
Director
Caribbean Drug & Alcohol Research Institute
Saint Lucia

Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Director of the International Research Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
USA

Françoise Girard
Director, Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
USA

Robin Gorna
Executive Director
International AIDS Society
Switzerland

Carl L Hart, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Columbia University
USA

Ralf Jürgens, PhD
Consultant, HIV/AIDS, Health, Policy and Human Rights
Canada

Adeeba Kamarulzaman, MD
Head of Infectious Disease Unit
University of Malaya Medical Centre
Malaysia

Michel D. Kazatchkine, MD
Executive Director
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Switzerland

Thomas Kerr, PhD
Director, Urban Health Research Initiative
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Canada

Danny Kushlick
Head of Policy
Transform Drug Policy Foundation
England

Rick Lines
Deputy Director
International Harm Reduction Association
Australia

Barbara McGovern, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
USA

Julio S.G. Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FRSC
Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Professor, Chair in AIDS Research and Head of Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia
Immediate Past President, International AIDS Society Canada

David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci Director, Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Division of Experimental Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College of London
England

Thomas L. Patterson, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
USA

Tim Rhodes, PhD
Professor and Director, Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
England

Brigitte Schmied, MD
President, Austrian AIDS Society, AIDS 2010 Local Co-Chair
Head of HIV Outpatient Clinic, Otto-Wagner-Spital Vienna
Austria

Steffanie Strathdee, PhD
Harold Simon Professor and Chief, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
USA

Sharon Walmsley, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto, Division of Infectious Diseases
Canada

Dan Werb, MSc
Research Associate
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Canada

Alexander Wodak, FRACP, FAChAM, FAFPHM, MBBS
Director, Alcohol and Drug Service
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Australia

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