For more than 20 years, Melissa Turner, MSW, LICSW, MPA, has been integrally involved in patient care management and HIV clinical trial research in Washington, D.C. as a social worker and community engagement manager. Melissa is a Clinical Social Worker in the Infectious Diseases Section serving veterans living with HIV and a community engagement specialist for HIV research trials on the local, international and network level for National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial networks.

Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, Health Behavior and Society, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Training Program in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Science and as Founding Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and of the University’s Center for Global Health.