“HIV/Aids – Ending the Epidemic”: Virtual International Panel Discussion This Weekend
Chapel Hill, NC – “HIV/Aids—Ending the Epidemic“, a virtual panel discussion, hosted by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Area Alumnae, Grand Bahama Alumnae, Greater Toronto Area Alumnae, and Saint Thomas Alumnae chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, will take place on Saturday, January 23, 2021, 11 am (EST) via Zoom. The event will inform, educate, and bring awareness to an international audience about the strides made in prevention, research, and living with AIDS. It will also cover current treatment options and prevention. The program supports the sorority’s International Awareness and Involvement (IAI) programmatic thrust to impact the lives of women and girls across the globe.
Moderator for the program is Stephanie H. Anderson, Ph.D., a clinician and researcher with more than 20 years of experience working with youth who reside in resource-poor urban communities. Dr. Anderson has led and worked on a number of projects for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Mental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Join the Q&A session by an esteemed group of panelists. Free and open to the public. Click here now to register to receive the Zoom link: http://bitly.com/397NEzi
Panelists are:
Alicia Diggs, Manager for the Strategic Community Engagement Education Dissemination Office, Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Diggs became an HIV/AIDS Activist, Educator, and Speaker in 2004. Diggs has participated in events sponsored by various organizations that provide services for persons living with HIV in North Carolina such as Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency, Guilford County Health Department, and Triad Health Project
Allison Mathews, Ph.D., is the Integrating Special Populations (ISP) Associate Director; Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, Wake Forest Baptist Health. Mathews is a researcher and social entrepreneur with extensive experience examining crowdsourcing as a mechanism to innovate clinical research engagement and identify and develop tech-based solutions that promote health equity. She focuses on the development and evaluation of ethical HIV clinical research engagement, crowdsourcing, and community-based, technological innovations.
Donaldson Conserve, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. His research focuses on implementing and disseminating evidence-based HIV prevention, care, and treatment interventions for scale-up and population impact. As part of his K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health, he has contributed to national implementation science efforts funded by USAID to promote community-based HIV testing and treatment and develop a policy for HIV self-testing (HIVST) in Tanzania.
Maureen Owino is the Director of the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) in Toronto, Ontario. She is committed to promoting the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV who are facing access barriers related to their status using the tools of education, training, research, service coordination, and advocacy. Maureen also runs The HIV program at Regent Park Community Health Centre where people living with HIV are supported through meaningful community and workplace participation. She serves as an investigator on the A/C Study and is a member of the A/C Study Knowledge Translation and Exchange Working Group.
Shamika K. Thomas is a women’s advocate, health educator, and community liaison who was born and raised on the island of St. Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Virgin Islands, a Master’s in Public Health with a dual concentration in Health Management and Policy and Health Education and Promotion from Benedictine University, and is currently a Ph. D. student in Creative Leadership/Education Leadership.
Through the International Awareness and Involvement (IAI) programmatic thrust, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., harnesses its vast potential to impact strategically the plight of people living across the diaspora. International Awareness and Involvement will continue to move forward in this 21st Century by strengthening our Awareness and Involvement in Africa and Haiti. Throughout the years, the Sorority has continued to use its NGO status to impact the lives of women and girls across the globe.