Symposium / Conference / Workshop

Description: Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) will co-host the World TB Day Symposium with the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis in San Francisco. The event will honor CITC’s 25th anniversary and feature keynote talks and panel discussions by international leaders in TB research, policy, and clinical and programmatic practice. Dr. Payam Nahid, Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis, and Dr. Lisa Chen, CITC’s Principal Investigator, will co-moderate the symposium.

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/7799804337

Presenter: Michael Peluso, MD

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from HIV-infected individuals enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators. Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc! We like discussion :) Presentation time, including discussion, runs usually ~50min.

In October, 2019, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) received $628,000 in Ending the Epidemic grant funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The NIH awarded the grants through a competitive application and review process, funding the following studies. We’ll hear brief presentations from each of the grant recipients!

Hong-Ha Truong, PhD: Enhancing Partner Notification for Newly-Diagnosed, Sexually Active High Risk MSM

Presenter: Sara Moron-Lopez, PhD

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from HIV-infected individuals enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators. Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc! We like discussion :) Presentation time, including discussion, runs usually ~50min.

Presenter: Sara Moron-Lopez, PhD

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from HIV-infected individuals enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators. Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc! We like discussion :) Presentation time, including discussion, runs usually ~50min.

Enjoy PrEP Education

Live entertainment by Breanna Sinclairè,one of the only Operatic Sopranos in the world who is Transgender,

and DJ Snick At Night

Dinner Catered by: Ms. Carmel Hill of Chosen Hands Gift Baskets & More

For additional info contact: terrihaggins25@gmail.com

Description

The two-day workshop is an intensive and interactive meeting designed to provide mid-career and senior faculty in HIV research with the tools for more effective mentoring, especially of mentees of diversity (defined mainly as those from underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities). The workshops discusses barriers related to being an early career investigator of diversity (e.g.