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Steering committee
The MMCI steering committee provides strategic guidance, helping the initiative to prioritize activities and identify issue-areas in the rapidly changing field of HIV prevention research. The steering committee consists of communications, advocacy, community and scientific experts from a range of international, country and site-level perspectives. Many members maintain links to other prevention research networks in order to ensure cross-collaboration with large-scale trials in the field and to maintain strong links to other groups and sponsors. These broader networks include the Quick Working Group, African Microbicide Advocacy Group and the HIV Prevention Trials Network.
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Manju Chatani coordinates the African Microbicides Advocacy Group (AMAG). Manju was part of the team that co-founded AMAG in 2003. She has been active in international microbicides advocacy for the last seven years.
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Polly Harrison is founder and Director of the Alliance for Microbicide Development. She was Senior Program Officer and Director of International Health at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, where she founded the Forum on HIV/AIDS Research and Forum on Emerging Infections, and led major studies on critical aspects of international health, infectious disease, reproductive health, and public-/private-sector responses to global health challenges.
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Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist whose main current research interests are in understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa; factors influencing acquisition of HIV infection in adolescent girls; and sustainable strategies to introduce HAART in resource-constrained settings.
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Neetha Shagan Morar is currently employed as a Specialist Scientist within the HIV Prevention Research Unit (HPRU) of the Medical Research Council, South Africa. She has been employed with the unit for the past 10 years and has made a valuable contribution to the field of HIV prevention research especially with regards to community and social issues. Ms Morar began her career at the MRC as a junior scientist.
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Dr Patrick Ndase, has a Medical Degree from Makerere University in Uganda & an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. He began his career as an educator/advocate for adolescent reproductive health in Uganda. Before moving to Botswana, Ndase worked at the Mildmay Center-Uganda, a pioneer HIV specialist care and training center, where he was in charge of one of the first physician-oriented home based care program for AIDS patients.
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Pamela Norick is responsible for IPM’s strategic engagement with key constituencies and stakeholders worldwide and coordination of IPM’s external outreach across all programs. Ms. Norick has worked on behalf of major U.S. non-governmental organizations involved in developing safe and effective microbicides for nearly a decade.
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Lisa Rossi is director of communications and external relations for the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), a National Institutes of Health HIV/AIDS clinical trials network based at the University of Pittsburgh. In this capacity, she oversees media relations and communications for MTN studies at 18 clinical trial sites in seven countries.
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Elizabeth T. Robinson, M.S., is Deputy Director for Research Dissemination at Family Health International. As head of FHI's Information Programs unit, she manages FHI publications, research dissemination activities, and technical assistance in communications for research studies. She is the co-author of Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research (Jossey Bass, 2005), a textbook used in more than 100 countries.
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Founding steering committee members / Emeritus
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Lori Heise is a well-known advocate and policy expert in the field of women's health and HIV. As GCM's Director, Lori is responsible for overall management, strategic vision, and fundraising. She also provides intellectual leadership for the Campaign's program on ethics and public policy.
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Mitzy Gafos started working in the field of HIV in 1996. She worked for the United Kingdom Department of Health for many years in service development, eventually working as the National Primary Care lead for the Sexual Health and Drug Misuse team. In 2004, she joined the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies research site in the rural Umkhanyakude district of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
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