Associate Professor
School of Public Health, Pittsburgh University
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Jean Nachega, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCP, DTM&H, is a tenured Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at University of Pittsburgh, USA; Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology and International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; and Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa. He received his training in Belgium (University of Louvain), UK (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), USA (Johns Hopkins University & Harvard University). He has over 25 year-experience in patient care, teaching, designing and implementing HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis studies or programs funded by NIH/NIAID, PEPFAR, EDCTP, and Wellcome Trust. He authored more than 230 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Nachega conducted a seminal study that showed that the relationship between adherence to Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTIs)-based HIV Therapy and virologic outcomes has linear dose-response pattern and is linked to various virologic outcomes. He was the first to quantify the savings in health care cost per month associated with excellent ART adherence, in a large South African HIV cohort. For these contributions and other, he was recipient of the 2022 International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care award for outstanding contribution to HIV treatment adherence research, with evidence of scientific impact as well as mentorship of younger investigators in US and Africa. In addition, he is an ad hoc expert consultant for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; US Centers for Diseases Control & Preventions (CDC); and at World Health Organization (WHO) as well as a member-elect of Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf) and African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
283 - Closing Plenary – PEPFAR: A Model for Global Public Health Intervention
Sunday, October 15, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM US ET
Sunday, October 15, 2023
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM US ET