November 12, 2009
Lecture on mother-to-child HIV transmission set for Dec. 1
Dr. Grace John-Stewart, director of the International Core of the UW Center for AIDS Research, will deliver a lecture, Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1: From Discovery to Delivery, at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1, in Hogness Auditorium. The lecture is the School of Medicine’s Science in Medicine lecture as well as the School of Public Health’s Fall Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
John-Stewart has appointments in both schools. She is a professor in the Department of Global Health, which is administered jointly by the schools of medicine and public health; a professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and a professor of epidemiology.
Over 90 percent of the world’s HIV-1 infected children reside in Africa. To rapidly decrease the number of infants acquiring HIV-1 worldwide, a multi-faceted approach is necessary –one that ranges from molecular pathogenesis studies to studies on HIV-1 testing strategies and health systems.
As a member of the UW-Kenya collaborative team, John-Stewart conducted studies to define timing, cofactors, and mechanisms of mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission, clinical trials of interventions to prevent HIV-1 transmission, and implementation studies to refine delivery of services. Her research focus is to understand how mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission occurs and how it can be prevented, and to identify bottlenecks to delivery of interventions to improve maternal and child health.
The lecture is open to all faculty, staff, and students and will also be televised at the following locations:
• Harborview Medical Center Research and Training Building, Room 113
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System (Seattle Division, Building 1, Room 518; American Lake, Building 81, Room 1132)
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Room J J2-108
• Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Conference Room 506
• WSU Riverpoint Campus, Spokane Academic Center, Room 345
For more information, contact Holly Weese in the School of Public Health at 206.685.6643 or hweese@uw.edu, or Denise Barnes in the School of Medicine at 206.685.8710 or barmen@uw.edu
