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Richard Hayes (statistical epidemiologist)

Richard Hayes, also known as Richard J Hayes, is a British statistical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for HIV and tuberculosis trials in Africa.

Robert M. Grant

Robert M. Grant is an American physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the iPrEx trial, the first major demonstration that daily antiretroviral pills prevent HIV infection.

Robert McClung

Robert McClung, known as R. Paul McClung, is a CDC researcher in HIV outbreak detection and response who coauthored the first 2022 US mpox report.

Salim Abdool Karim

Salim Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who led the CAPRISA 004 trial proving antiretrovirals prevent HIV, and chaired South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee.

Scott D. Holmberg

Scott D. Holmberg (born 1950) is an American physician and CDC epidemiologist who led influential HIV studies and heads the national Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS).

Stefan Baral

Stefan D. Baral is a Canadian physician epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for the 2016 Lancet series on transgender health.

Steffanie A. Strathdee

Steffanie A. Strathdee is a Canadian-American infectious disease epidemiologist at UC San Diego, known for HIV research among people who inject drugs and for reviving phage therapy.

Thomas C. Quinn

Thomas C. Quinn is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who was among the first to identify the AIDS epidemic and HIV in Africa.

Thomas J. Coates

Thomas J. Coates is an American HIV/AIDS prevention researcher at UCLA who spent 21 years at UCSF, co-founded its Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and led landmark trials of HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Africa.

Tulio de Oliveira

Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian-born South African bioinformatician who directs CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP, and led the team that identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in 2021.

William L. Holzemer

William L. Holzemer is an American nurse scientist, dean emeritus of the Rutgers School of Nursing, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.