HIV & AIDS Opening Plenary 1
Monday, November 6, 2017 |
8:30 AM - 10:40 AM |
Royal Theatre |
Speaker
Wally Bell
Welcome to Country
8:30 AM - 8:35 AMBiography
Dr Richard Di Natale
Australian Greens and Senator Victoria
Government Welcome
8:40 AM - 8:45 AMBiography
Dr Richard Di Natale, is the Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for Victoria
Scott McGill
ASHM
Welcome
8:45 AM - 8:50 AMBiography
Scott McGill, Acting CEO of ASHM
Dr Bridget Haire
Research Fellow
Kirby Institute
Community Welcome
8:50 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Dr Bridget Haire, President of AFAO
Mr Cipri Martinez
President
National Association Of People With HIV Australia
Community Welcome
8:50 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Cipri Martinez, President of NAPWHA
Mr Nic Holas
Co-founder
The Institute of Many
Living with HIV online
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMBiography
Nic Holas is an activist, writer, and co-founder of The Institute of Many (TIM), an advocacy platform and grassroots movement for People Living with HIV. TIM has been identified as a major player in the nation's modern-day HIV response, delivering grassroots activism, digital campaigns, resources, events, and digital community spaces since 2012.
A/Prof Adam Bourne
Associate Professor
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
Reconciling risk, pleasure and pills: multicultural perspectives on combination prevention
9:15 AM - 9:40 AMBiography
Adam Bourne is newly appointed Associate Professor of Public Health at the Australian Research Centre of Sex, Health & Society at La Trobe University. He specialises in drug use, harm reduction and sexual risk behaviour among LGBT populations.
Prof Georg Behrens
Lecturer
Hannover Medical School
Co-morbidities in HIV patients: Hit hard and early?
9:40 AM - 10:05 AMBiography
Prof. Georg MN Behrens is an Internist, HIV-Specialist and Professor for T Cell Immunology in the Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Dr. Genoveffa Franchini
Senior Investigator
NIH National Cancer Institute
Correlates of risk of protective HIV vaccine candidates
10:05 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Dr. Genoveffa Franchini is a hematologist and retrovirologist who has pioneered research on oncogenes and human retroviruses (HTLVs and HIVs). Her work has furthered the understanding of HTLV-1 pathogenesis and gene regulations, and has led to the first partially efficacious HIV vaccine in humans.
Associate Professor Edwina Wright
Associate Professor
Alfred Health, Monash University