Conversation With Nick Hellmann and Lisa Jacobs: Shaping the HIV/AIDS Global Agenda for Children

Stanford’s Program on Human Rights in the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is collaborating with U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health to present the Children’s Human Rights Seminar Series for 2014-2015. This monthly series will bring together UNICEF representatives, academic experts, and global civil society leaders to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing children today. Each event will highlight one of UNICEF's main programmatic areas, in the following order: emergency response, HIV/AIDS, disabilities, child protection, nutrition, water and sanitation, health and immunizations, and education.

SPEAKERS BIOS

Nick Hellmann, MD is the Strategy and Science Advisor at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on HIV-related issues. He previously worked from June 2008 to April 2014 as the EGPAF Executive Vice President of Medical & Scientific Affairs, responsible for strategic oversight and direction of the Foundation’s research initiatives and medical programs focused on ending HIV/AIDS in children and providing HIV prevention, care, and treatment services to children, women, and families at over 7000 foundation-supported sites in 14 countries across the globe.

Lisa Jacobs is a global health consultant with expertise in advocacy and communications, strategy, governance, and global health architecture. Lisa was a founding staff member at the GAVI Alliance, and served as head of governance for 10 years. In 2012 and 2013 she worked as a consultant to the UNICEF HIV/AIDS section in New York, supporting the development of UNICEF’s role in the global effort to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV (eMTCT) and its strategy for adolescents and HIV/AIDS. Her other clients have included AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention, WHO, UNAIDS, UCSF, and Clinton Health Access Initiative.