Speaker Bio

Yasmin Halima, Senior Consultant and Vice President, AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition

Yasmin Halima is a Senior Consultant to the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), working closely with the US Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC), US National Institutes of Health as well as scientists, physicians and activists engaged with HIV treatment access and research. She also served as Consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and established the International AIDS Society Industry Liaison Forum (IAS-ILF), a clinical research initiative bringing together pharmaceutical executives with developing world scientists and policy-makers. As a Technical Advisor to the World Health Organization, she contributed to their regulatory package informing decisions for market authorization.

Ms. Halima is on the board of the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) and was appointed as Vice President of the US AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition (ATAC). In her journalistic capacity as Editorial Consultant to NAM Publications in the UK, Ms. Halima reports on aidsmap.com.


The Social Enterprise Conference 2008 is presented by the Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the International Development Club with the support of the Social Enterprise Program, Energy Club, Microlumbia Fund, Healthcare Industry Association and Green Business Club, and our generous sponsors.

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