Responding to HIV in humanitarian and conflict settings

Kenneth Ngure MPH, MSc, PhD is a Behavioral Scientist and an Associate Professor of Global Health and the former Dean School of Public Health, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Global Health University of Washington. His research mainly focuses on novel biomedical HIV prevention methods especially PrEP among adolescent girls and young women, novel measures of adherence and testing different methods of simplifying PrEP delivery, including through use of HIV self-testing.

Dr Patrice Joseph has been a clinician and a senior investigator at GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti since 1999. Dr Joseph’s medical background is in Internal Medicine with an emphasis in Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He earns a Master in Clinical Investigation from Vanderbilt University, USA. Presently, Dr. Joseph is the MPH Program Director at Quisqueya University. Dr Joseph is also the Project Coordinator for both the “President Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)” and the Global Fund Projects focusing on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis and other emerging infections. Dr Joseph has in the past five (5) years developed a Differentiated Service Delivery model (DSD) of care that includes patient choice between community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) centers, home-based ART dispensing, or facility-based care at GHESKIO clinic during a period of severe civil unrest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Dr. Nesrine Rizk is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, specializing in Infectious Diseases, in the Department of Internal Medicine at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

She has served as Division Chief of Infectious Diseases at AUBMC since September 2024. Dr. Rizk's research interests include HIV/AIDS epidemiology in the MENA region, as well as HIV-associated inflammation and complications. She is also focused on antimicrobial stewardship and resistance.

Francesco Segala is an Infectious Diseases doctor, PhD candidate and project manager at Italian NGO "Doctors with Africa Cuamm". His research area covers infectious diseases challenges in low- and middle-income settings with a focus on vulnerable populations, HIV, migration and adaptation to the climate crisis.

Tetiana Deshko has worked in health and development with focus on HIV/AIDS since 2001. Alliance for Public Health run HIV program in Ukraine under her supervision was considered as a model for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and internationally acknowledged. Tetiana has been managing international and multicounty projects with HIV/TB focus in Asia and East Africa. She is supporting countries to transit from the donor to domestic funding of health and social programs. After the start of war in Ukraine she engaged into humanitarian work.