Omar Sued is a medical doctor, specialized in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He has been working in HIV since 1997 in different countries and settings, including public and private hospitals, health centers, prisons and NGOs. He got a Master’s degree and a PhD diploma in Acute HIV from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

From 2009 to 2012 he worked as HIV Advisor for the Latin America and the Caribbean at the Pan-American Health Organization Headquarters in Washington DC, US. He has been part of several WHO guidelines expert groups. He has authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2012 he is the Director of the Research Department of Fundación Huésped, a local NGO that works in HIV prevention focused in transgender women and young men having sex with men. Since his incorporation, Fundación Huésped has been admitted to several research networks including the HIV Prevention Trials Network, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and the AIDS Malignancies Consortium.

He is the President of the Infectious Diseases Argentinean Society (SADI), where he previously held the positions of Secretary (2013-2015) and Treasurer (2015-2019). Since March he has represented SADI at the Presidential Expert Committee for COVID-19 Response. He represents Latin America at the IAS Governing Council.