Presentation by Ambassador Stephen Lewis, co-director, AIDS-Free World and U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (2001-2006), follow by panel discussion and reception. Lewis will be introduced by UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH.

Monday, October 12, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

513 Parnassus, UCSF School of Nursing building, Room N-225, UCSF Campus, San Francisco

Shari L. Dworkin, PhD, MS, associate professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, affiliated faculty, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Ruth Greenblatt, MD, professor of clinical pharmacy, medicine, and epidemiology & biostatistics, and director, Women’s Specialty Program, UCSF; principal investigator, Women’s Interagency HIV Study; director, Bay Area Research Consortium on Women and AIDS.

Joel Paul, professor and associate dean, International and Graduate Programs, University of California Hastings College of the Law.

UCSF Global Health Sciences; UCSF AIDS Research Institute; UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research; Global Strategies for HIV Prevention; Center for HIV Information; Golden Gate University School of Law & Sompong Sucharitkul Center for International Legal Studies; UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention; UCSF-UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy; UC Berkeley: Human Rights Center, William & Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges & the Law, and the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity; UC Hastings College of Law: Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Refugee & Human Rights Clinic; Santa Clara University School of Law: Center on Social Justice & Public Interest, Center for Global Law & Policy.

Media interested in covering the event should contact Jeff Sheehy, (415) 597-8165.