Person-centred care stakeholder consultations - What is the evidence supporting a person-centred care approach within the HIV response?

Laura holds a PhD from John Hopkins University where she is faculty in the Dept of International Health. She is a social and behavioural scientist who uses implementation science and participatory approaches such as human-centered design and mixed methods research to develop and evaluate strategies to optimize quality engagement in HIV prevention, care, and treatment services internationally, with more than 15 years living and working in Lesotho and Zambia.

Daisy Kwala is a health rights activist. She is very passionate about HIV and mainly advocates for treatment as prevention. As the care manager at Bar Hostess empowerment & support program, her core work is to champion for the rights and freedom of young girls, adolescent women using drugs and young sex workers living with HIV to promote positive living and access to quality healthcare for all female sex workers.

Rodenie Arnaiz Olete is a registered professional nurse in the Philippines who recently finished Master of Science in International Advanced Practice Nursing (MSc-IAPN) from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. He is about to pursue a PhD in Public Health in the same university in September 2022. His work in programs development in the Philippines focused on intersecting issues on HIV and AIDS including mental health and socioeconomic disparity among Filipino LGBTQIA+ and PLHIV communities. He was a consultant of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC)-Philippines and conducted a mixed-method research on Chemsex among Filipino MSM in 2019. As the current Director of Programs and Research for Gabay sa Pulang Laso Inc. (GPLI), he formalized the structural model of psycho-socioeconomic interventions for residentially-displaced PLHIV in the Philippines. He is also a part-time clinical instructor/lecturer at the College of Nursing in Iloilo Doctors’ College.

Elvin Geng is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Heath, both at Washington University in St. Louis. Using the lens of implementation science, Dr. Geng conducts research to advance the use of evidence-based interventions in the public health response to HIV and COVID-19 as well as increasingly for non-communicable diseases as well. He has worked closely with service-delivery organizations in Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, as well as in the US. Dr. Geng has been a member of the World Health Organization’s Guideline Development Group for HIV, and a Commission for Human Resources for Health in Rwanda convened by the National Academies of Science. Dr. Geng is an academic editor at PLOS Medicine, an editorial board member of JAIDS and Journal of the International AIDS Society and as the editor for implementation science at Current HIV/AIDS Reports.

Marie-Claude Lavoie is an Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Director of strategic information and evaluation, Ciheb at University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a public health professional with 10 years of experience in epidemiological methods, research (conceptualization to dissemination phases), program management, monitoring and evaluation, and health policy development. My areas of interest include women's health, maternal and child health, health system strengthening, and injury and violence prevention.

Ibou Thior is a Senior Technical Advisor at PATH. He is a senior health professional with strengths in projects and programs implementation, management and strategic alliances and an author of more than 40 peer reviewed publications. He is responsible for establishing the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and 5 clinical trial sites for the conduct of multiple HIV intervention studies. His research studies include Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV, vaccine trials, Antiretroviral treatment interventions and basic science laboratory research.

Jeffrey V Lazarus is the head of the Health Systems Research Group at ISGlobal and Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona as well as a senior scholar at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. He earlier served as Professor at LUHS Medical Academy, Lithuania, and as Affiliated Professor at CHIP, the WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV and Viral Hepatitis at Rigshospitalet, the University of Copenhagen, and at the University of Porto, Portugal. He is the author of more than 300 publications and is principal investigator of multiple global consensus statements as well as the HCV Free Baleares, VH-COMSAVAC, COVID-VAC and NAFLD research and policy studies.