Person-centred approaches to address the health needs of people living with HIV and co-infections and co-morbidities

Rena Janamnuaysook works as a Program Manager for Implementation Science at the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) in Bangkok, Thailand, where she established the Tangerine Clinic as the first transgender-led health clinic in the region. She manages and provides technical guidance for the development and implementation of HIV research and programs for transgender people and other key populations in Thailand and in Asia. Rena is one of the program fellows of the NIH CHIMERA D43 program which is part of the IeDEA network program to learn to conduct the HIV and mental health implementation research.
She has also worked as Project Management Specialist in HIV Key Populations for the US Agency for International Development and was a co-founder of the Thai Transgender Alliance, the first transgender-owned human rights organization in Thailand. Rena received a master degree in international development from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and is currently doing her PhD at Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

 

Jeffrey V. Lazarus is a Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the head of the Health Systems Research Group at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. He currently serves as co-chair of the HIV Outcomes Beyond Viral Suppression coalition and he is the author of more than 300 publications, including the global consensus statement on HIV and health systems, which followed up a landmark proposal for a “fourth 90” in HIV monitoring, which focused on quality of life.

Jeffrey V. Lazarus is a Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the head of the Health Systems Research Group at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. He currently serves as co-chair of the HIV Outcomes Beyond Viral Suppression coalition and he is the author of more than 300 publications, including the global consensus statement on HIV and health systems, which followed up a landmark proposal for a “fourth 90” in HIV monitoring, which focused on quality of life.

Jane has worked in HIV care and HIV-related research activities for 19 years. Currently, she is a Program Manager and an Investigator of the SAPPHIRE project which is accelerating the path to HIV elimination with new innovative combination strategies for HIV prevention and treatment that are effective, efficient, scalable, and reduce HIV incidence. She is also a member of the national HIV and NCD technical working groups at the Uganda Ministry of Health; and has championed the integration of hypertension in 52 HIV clinics in 26 districts of southwestern Uganda.

Njekwa Mukamba works for Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia as Implementation Coordinator for Person-Centred Care Study. Njekwa coordinated the process evaluation component of ‘Better Information for Health in Zambia which led to the formulation of the BetterInfo toolkit. He also coordinated qualitative and health economics components of the Person Centred Care study, which sought to improve client experience in HIV care in 24 health facilities in Lusaka and Chongwe and districts of Zambia.

Davina Canagasabey is an HIV and global health practitioner with more than fourteen years of experience providing technical and management oversight to HIV and organizational capacity building projects across 18 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Ms. Canagasabey currently serves as a Senior Technical Advisor with PATH’s Primary Health Care Program, supporting HIV and TB/HIV projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Uganda, and Vietnam.

Esther Karamagi Nkolo has 15 years’ worth of public health experience in Africa including firsthand programming experience in a broad range of health areas including pediatrics HIV and continuous quality improvement. Esther recently won PEPFAR’s Lifetime achievement award, and PEPFAR’s Lahya Shiimi award. She currently works with USAID Uganda as the Program Management Specialist for Quality Assurance and leads the pediatrics HIV portfolio.

A professional health specialist with over 30 years’ experience in the Health sector, holding various portfolios, both in public and private sector. Maggie is currently the National Health Insurance Technical Specialist, Contracting and the Head of CCMDD. CCMDD won the South African Public Sector Innovator of the year award for 2021, and from South Africa to the rest of Africa, CCMDD won the Bronze award in 2022 African Association for Public Administration and Management Awards.

Brian Minalga is the Deputy Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle which supports the global operations of the HIV clinical trials networks and Brian leads with a particular focus on ethics and community engagement in clinical research. As a member of trans and nonbinary communities, much of Brian’s work focuses on transgender representation and justice.

Tung Doan is a young gay man and LGBTI & HIV activist in Vietnam. He is currently the Programmes Manager at the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global) and a Technical advisor for Lighthouse, a community-led organisation in Vietnam. Tung has over 13 years of experience working in community development, community's health and rights advocacy, HIV/AIDS response programme implementation and Stigma reduction at national, regional and global level.