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Friday Conference: Youth Engagement in HIV Research

January 24 @ 9:15 am - 10:15 am

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Takhona Hlatshwako, MSc BSPH (Left), is a PhD student with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a graduate research assistant with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. As a student in Health Policy and Management, she is specializing in decision sciences and outcomes research. Her research focuses on the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Takhona has experience in community-engaged and youth-led research, particularly using crowdsourcing to inform health interventions in LMICs. Her recent work has investigated sexual and reproductive health in LMICs and utilized crowdsourcing methods to inform adolescent health and well-being in countries with a high HIV burden. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. Additionally, she earned two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford, one in epidemiology and the other in social policy, as a Rhodes Scholar.

Prince Kelechi Chima MB, BS, MSc (Right), is a physician, Rhodes Scholar, and DPhil candidate in Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford. He is dedicated to advancing innovative, sustainable healthcare solutions for individuals in resource-limited settings. His doctoral research aims to optimise diagnostic networks to combat antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). With over five years of experience, Kelechi has collaborated with national and international organisations such as WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and NIH to improve HIV/AIDS outcomes for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) across Africa. His team, in collaboration with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), developed and piloted BILI—a USSD-powered self-test reporting tool and dashboard designed to address the linkage-to-care challenges for AYAs in rural areas using HIV self-testing kits in Nigeria. Additionally, he contributed to an NIH-funded research consortium, PATC3H, to develop a practical guide for enhancing informed consent processes for AYAs in HIV research across LMICs. Currently, he serves as the Youth Advisory Board Chair for AHISA, an NIH-funded research network spanning 11 African countries dedicated to implementation science approaches that improve HIV outcomes for AYAs in Africa.

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Date:
January 24
Time:
9:15 am - 10:15 am
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics-1131, 130 Mason Farm Rd
Chapel Hill, NC United States
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