Gregg Gonsalves

Gregg Gonsalves is an HIV/AIDS activist and advocate, and an assistant professor at Yale.[1] He was born in Long Island, New York in approximately 1964.[2] He began working with ACT UP in 1990, going on to found Treatment Action Group. He found out he was HIV+ in 1995.[3] He has authored three reports of HIV and written many publications including the 1992 critical review AIDS research at the NIH and a report from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in 2006.[4][5] In 1992 one of his reports resulted in the Clinton Administration reorganising of AIDS research, and he continued to lobby the administration in his role as policy director of the Treatment Action Group in New York.[6] At the International AIDS Conference, held in Toronto, Gonsalves gave a powerful speech on the 25 years of AIDS. Gregg Gonsalves has completed studies at Yale University. In 2008, he received $100,000 as the first recipient of the AIDS Leadership Award from the John M. Lloyd Foundation.[7] He is currently working to improve access to HIV treatment in Southern Africa with the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (ARASA).[7]

In 2018, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship,[8][9] joining his fellow ACT UP activist and Treatment Action Group founder Mark Harrington, who became a MacArthur Fellow in 1997.

References

  1. ↑ "Gregg Gonsalves, PhD". Yale School of Public Health. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Shufro, Cathy (September–October 2015). "Its not just the germs". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ "AIDS at 30: an interview with activist Gregg Gonsalves". Science Speaks: Global ID News. May 20, 2011. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Gonsalves, Gregg; Harrington, Mark (July 22, 1992). AIDS research at the NIH: A Critical Review (PDF). Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ Rosenthal, Elizabeth (November 28, 2006). "Study finds goals unmet on HIV/AIDS treatments". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  6. ↑ Dunlap, David W. (December 7, 1995). "A Plea to Clinton to Lead U.S. Efforts Against AIDS". The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  7. 1 2 "Leadership and AIDS: Gregg Gonsalves". UNAIDS. May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  8. ↑ Stannard, Ed (October 5, 2018). "2 from New Haven with Yale ties win $625,000 MacArthur 'genius' grants". New Haven Register. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Gregg Gonsalves". MacArthur Foundation. October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.


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