Co-Chairs
Richard Parker, USA – Professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health and President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA)
Sonia Corrêa, Brazil – Founder of the leading Brazilian feminist organization SOS Corpo – Instituto Feminista para Democracia, Associate Researcher of the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA)
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Steering Committee
Gloria Careaga, Mexico – Co-Secretary of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Rosalind Petchesky, USA – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York
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Advisory Group
Adenike O. Esiet, Nigeria – Executive Director of Action Health Incorporated
Carlos Cáceres, Peru – Professor of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Coordinator of the Master’s Course in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Member of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Network for Latin America and the Caribbean
Cesnabmihilo Aken’ova, Nigeria – Executive Director for International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (INCRESE)
Codou Bop Senegal, Senegal – Researcher and activist, coordinator of International Network on Women Living under Muslim Laws (GREFFELS)
Gilbert Herdt, USA – Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Chair of the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University
Hossam Bahgat, Egypt – Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)
Ignacio Saiz, Spain – Acting Executive Director of the Center for Economic & Social Rights (CESR)
Kenneth Camargo Jr, Brazil – Associate Professor at the Social Medicine Institute/Rio de Janeiro State University and Board Member of ABIA, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association
Le Minh Giang, Vietnam – PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Research and Training on HIV/AIDS at Hanoi Medical University
Maria Luiza Heilborn, Brazil – PhD in Social Anthropology, Coordinator of Latin American Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) and Assistant Professor at the Social Medicine Institute/Rio de Janeiro State University
Michael L. Tan, Philippines – Medical anthropologist, Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, and heads the Medical Anthropology Section of the Social Medicine Unit, University of the Philippines College of Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Advisers of the Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality and Health and is Senior Country Adviser with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Radhika Chandiramani, India – Executive Director of the Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI)
Radhika Ramassuban, India – Director of the Centre for Social and Technological Change
Rhoda Redock, Trinidad and Tobago – Professor at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies
Wanda Nowicka, Poland – Founder of the Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASTRA), Member of the Advisory Board of Reproductive Health Matters and Co-Founder of the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA)
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ABIA Secretariat
Team: Sonia Corrêa, Marina Maria and Jandira Queiroz
ABIA – Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association
Presidente Vargas, 446/ 13th floor
Rio de Janeiro/RJ – 20.071-907 – Brazil
Phone: +55.21.2223-1040
Fax: +55.21.2253-8495
E-mail: admin@sxpolitics.org
Columbia University Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health Secretariat
Team: Richard Parker, Mayra Pabon, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Nancy Worthington, Natalie Wittlin, and Vagner Almeida
Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th Street, 5th floor
New York, New York 10032 USA
Phone: +1.212.305-3286
Fax: +1.212.342-0043
Email: mam172@columbia.edu
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This initiative is sponsored by Ford Foundation
