PEPFAR Alcohol and HIV Webinar April 29, :00am-10:00am EDT

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1 PEPFAR Alcohol and HIV Webinar April 29, :00am-10:00am EDT Agenda 8:00 Overview and Introduction Dr. Nina Hasen Senior HIV Prevention Advisor 8:10 The Burden of Disease of Alcohol with Special Emphasis on Infectious Disease Dr. Jürgen Rehm Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Introduction by Dr. Nina Hasen, Senior Prevention Advisor, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator 8:40 The Nexus between Alcohol and HIV (disease acquisition, transmission and progression) Emerging Findings from Africa and Elsewhere Professor Charles Parry Director, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit South African Medical Research Council Introduction by Dr. Thomas Kresina, Senior Public Health Advisor, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Agenda continued on next page 1

2 9:15 Global Challenges and Successes in Developing Effective Interventions to Address Alcohol and HIV Dr. Katherine Fritz Director, Global Health International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Introduction by Dr. Irene Benech, Key Population Team Lead, HIV Prevention Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 9:45 Closing Remarks Dr. Caroline Ryan Deputy Coordinator for Technical Leadership, U.S. Department of State Introduction by Dr. Austin Demby, Director, PEPFAR, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2

3 Speaker Biographical Information Nina S. Hasen, PHD Senior HIV Prevention Advisor Dr. Hasen serves in the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator as the Senior HIV Prevention Advisor. Her portfolio at OGAC encompasses both technical and programmatic issues, with a focus on HIV prevention and gender issues in Southern Africa. Dr. Hasen spent the early years of her career working in non-profit organizations focused on women s health and safety, both in the USA and abroad. These include after school projects for Moroccan girls; work with the British Pregnancy Advisory Service providing pregnancy testing and health counseling; and non-profit management training at Britain s National Council for Voluntary Organisations, all in the UK. In the US, her non-profit experience includes prevention of gender-based violence projects in diverse settings, as well as grassroots leadership development and training. Dr. Hasen s scientific background is in behavioral neuroscience; she earned her PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, where her research focused on the neural basis of maternal behaviors. As a women s health post-doctoral fellow, she developed animal models for research on the social and biological determinants of health disparities in breast cancer. Dr. Hasen has resided in Washington, DC since Jürgen Rehm, PHD Director, Social and Epidemiological Research Department Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Jürgen Rehm, Ph.D. has been appointed the Inaugural Chair for Addiction Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. In addition he holds positions at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto, Canada) as Director of the Social and Epidemiological Research Department and Head of the PAHO WHO Collaborating Centre, and at the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Technical University Dresden (Germany). Dr. Rehm has published more than 600 peer-reviewed publications in addiction research, comprising studies in epidemiology, economics and clinical research, the latter especially in the area of treatment evaluation. He is listed among the ISI most highly cited in the fields of social research and epidemiology and has been awarded the Jellinek Award, the most prestigious award in alcohol research. He has served as consultant to many countries, and is currently member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems. 3

4 Charles D.H. Parry, PHD Director, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit South African Medical Research Council Charles Parry is the Director of the South African Medical Research Council s Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit (ADARU). ADARU has 31 staff on medium- to long-term contracts and is involved in running +/-20 research projects funded directly or indirectly by agencies in South Africa (Departments of Health and Social Development), the USA (CDC, NICHD, NIAAA) and Canada (IDRC). He was educated in South Africa and the USA, obtaining an MSc degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Cape Town in 1983, an MA in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College Graduate School in Chicago in 1986, and a PhD in Community Psychology from the University of Virginia in He returned to South Africa from the USA in 1990 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Services Research at the Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh. He is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Clinical and Research Psychologist. He currently also has an appointment as Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University. He also serves as the Acting Vice President (Intramural Research) at the South African Medical Research Council. Dr Parry s research interests include substance abuse epidemiology, substance use and HIV, substance use and pregnancy, and alcohol policy. He has authored approximately 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored two books: Alcohol Policy & Public Health in South Africa (1998) and Alcohol and the Developing World: A public Health Perspective (2002). He is a member of the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Addiction; Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention & Policy; the African Journal of Drug & Alcohol Studies; Substance Abuse & Rehabilitation, and the International Journal of Alcohol & Drug Research. In 2006 he was appointed to the World Health Organization s Expert Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems and in 2010 was appointed to the technical advisory group of the UNODC/WHO joint program on drug dependence, treatment and care, and the board of the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance. Katherine Fritz, PHD, MPH Director, Global Health International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Dr. Katherine Fritz is Director of Global Health for the International Center for Research on Women. She is a social scientist and public health researcher with 17 years of international experience developing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral, communitybased, and structural interventions for HIV prevention. Her areas of expertise include designing and testing of programs to address women s and girls vulnerability to HIV/AIDS; integration of gender into national HIV strategies, alcohol as a structural driver of HIV risk and involving 4

5 communities as partners in program development and research. From , Fritz served as the technical lead on alcohol-related HIV risk for USAID s AIDSTAR-One Project. In this capacity, she worked with the Namibia Ministry of Health and a local PEPFAR implementing partner to develop and pilot a community-based program for HIV and alcohol risk reduction in an impoverished urban community of Windhoek. Dr. Fritz holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Yale University and a Master s in Public Health from University of California, Berkeley. Caroline Ryan, MDCM Deputy Coordinator for Technical Leadership Doctor Caroline A. Ryan received her BSc and MDCM from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She did her residency in internal medicine at Yale- New Haven Hospital. She completed an infectious disease fellowship at the University of Washington and then remained on the faculty in the Infectious Disease Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington. She received her Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington. In 1997, she joined the Centers for Disease Control, and served as the Associate Director for International Activities in the Division of STD Prevention and later as Chief of the Prevention Branch in the Global AIDS Program. Since October of 2004, Dr. Ryan has been on detail from CDC to the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator where she serves as the Deputy Coordinator of Technical Leadership for the PEPFAR program. 5