World AIDS Day 2019

On December 2, 2019, people from across NIH and the community will gather at Lipsett Amphitheater on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, for the OAR-sponsored World AIDS Day Symposium Community and NIH: In Partnership to End the HIV Epidemic. Speakers representing many of the communities touched by HIV will discuss how they—and the NIH—can work together to eradicate the disease. We are excited and honored to announce that NIH Director Francis Collins and Jeanne White-Ginder (mother of Ryan White) will be joining us during this important event.

We encourage you to attend this important event in person (to register for the event, please click here). For those who are unable to attend, the event will be livestreamed (click here; you do not need to register for the livestream).

Speakers and moderators for World AIDS Day 2019 include:

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

Jeanne White-Ginder
Mother of Ryan White and Ambassador for the National Hemophilia Foundation

Maureen M. Goodenow, Ph.D.
Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director, Office of AIDS Research, NIH

Timothy H. Holtz, M.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Director, Office of AIDS Research, NIH

Cornelius Baker
Special Advisor and PEPFAR Liaison, Office of AIDS Research, NIH, U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Research (PEPFAR)​​​​​​​

Guillermo Chacón
President, Latino Commission on AIDS

Abby R. Charles, M.P.H.
Senior Program Manager, Institute for Public Health Innovation

Daniel Driffin, M.P.H.
Co-Founder, THRIVE SS

June Gipson, Ph.D., Ed.S.
President/CEO, My Brother’s Keeper

Rev. Debra Hickman, M.Div.
Co-founder, Sisters Together and Reaching, Inc. (STAR)

Consuella López
Director of Operations, Casa Ruby

Marissa Miller
Senior Strategy Director, National Trans Visibility March on DC

Pernessa C. Seele, D.L.H.
Founder and CEO, Balm in Gliead, Inc.

Mitchell Warren
Executive Director, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)

To learn more about NIH’s observance of World AIDS Day 2018, click here.