Kwe - Honouring my given names The One the Eagles watch over and NoDe WenDa {wolf eyes} Valerie is Mi'kmaq and Haida A mother of 4 boys and grandmother of 4 grandsons and 1 grand daughter. Living with HIV for 14 years, Valerie currently works as a Peer Navigator with Positive Living Society of B.C. enjoys working at levels of community based research and is 2018 recipient of CAHR Red Ribbon Research award. Valerie is the board Chair of Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network and Red Road HIV AIDS Network.

Dr. Gulick is Rochelle Belfer Professor in Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Dr. Gulick’s research interests include designing, conducting and analyzing clinical trials to refine antiretroviral therapy strategies for HIV treatment and prevention and assess antiretroviral agents with new mechanisms of action. He currently serves as Principal Investigator of the Cornell-New Jersey HIV Clinical Trials Unit of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Panel on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV Infection, a Member of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee (OARAC), a Board Member of the International Antiviral Society-USA. He has presented at national and international meetings and published widely.

Rebecca Guy is an Associate Professor and Program Head with the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program in the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in surveillance and public health interventions related to HIV and sexually transmissible infections.