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The Inter-CFAR Faith and Spirituality Research Collaborative are pleased to announce the next topic of our quarterly webinar series with The Importance of Data and Stories in Engaging Black Faith Communities about HIV. It will be held on Thursday, October 19th at 6:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Central.
Presenters:
Allison Mathews, PhD - serves as Executive Director of the Gilead COMPASS Faith Coordinating Center and Research Fellow in Faith and Health in the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University. She also serves as the founder and CEO of a consulting company, Community Expert Solutions, Inc., which uses technology, social marketing and community engagement to innovate clinical research engagement for underrepresented groups. She specializes in integrating technology, social marketing, community engagement and social science to examine the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and religiosity on HIV-related stigma and to innovate clinical research engagement and access to health care for underserved populations. Dr. Mathews has been invited to speak about HIV and COVID-19 on national and international platforms, including TEDxCaryWomen. Dr. Mathews and Ms. Kimberly Knight co-founded and had December 14 officially declared by the state of North Carolina as HIV Cure Research Day to raise awareness about HIV cure research and encourage community involvement in ending the HIV epidemic. During her tenure as Executive Director, she and her team have launched the North Carolina HIV & Faith Ambassador Program, which boasts 50 faith leaders and 10 medical providers and the Black Faith & HIV Initiative, which offers self-paced online educational modules to educate the public about how to implement HIV and faith programming in their communities. They also hosted the inaugural "Proclamation at the Intersections: Faith, Healing, and HIV" conference in June 2022 in Dallas, TX. She earned her BA in Sociology from Howard University and her MA and PhD in Sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill. She completed her postdoctoral work at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of Social Medicine and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease.
Rev. Dr. Sande Bailey-Gwinn – is a licensed and ordained minister who has served various communities in the Southeastern, United States for more than twenty-three years. She currently serves as Pastor of Gwinn’s Ministry, Commerce, GA, Chaplain for Northridge Nursing Health and Rehabilitation, finally Dr. Bailey-Gwinn is the founder and CEO of Foundations For Living, a non-profit organization that brings strength and transformation to marginalized communities through Mental Healthcare Awareness, Domestic Violence Survivor Services, AIDS/HIV Prevention, and Career Development Support for Reentry. Rev Gwinn produces and host her very own blog talk show “Faith to Move Forward” a Facebook Live talk show that engages conversations as it shines light to social justice advocacy through faith and community-based initiatives since January 2021. She is also, a committee member of the HIV and Faith Compass Initiative of The Wake Forest University School of Divinity, member of the COVID-19 Prevention Network Faith Initiative, a member of the Howard University International Stigma Conference Faith Committee, a Board Member of The Peace Place Domestic Violence Shelter, and a Board Member of the US HIV & AIDS Faith Coalition. An award recipient of the “2021 Stigma Warrior Award” from Howard University. Dr. Bailey-Gwinn holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Theology, a Master’s of Divinity, and her Doctor of Christian Ministry from the North Carolina Theological Seminary. She also earned an associate degree in Criminal Justice from Lanier Technical College. She is a national speaker, author of “Help Me Help You” and talent and film producer for “Black Church Black Preacher Black Woman”. Her mantra is: “Love isn’t love until you give it away”.