Gregg Gonsalves

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Gregg Gonsalves
Born (1963-10-21) October 21, 1963 (age 61)
Mineola, New York, United States
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Health activist (HIV/AIDS, opioid crisis, COVID-19), epidemiologist
Employer(s)Yale School of Public Health and Yale Law School
Known forACT UP New York Treatment Action Group, Yale Global Health Justice Partnership
Awards

Gregg Gonsalves (born October 21, 1963) is a global health activist, an epidemiologist, an associate professor at Yale School of Public Health and an associate professor (adjunct) at Yale Law School.[1][2] As well as being co-director of Yale Law School's Global Health Justice Partnership,[2] Gonsalves is the public health correspondent of the progressive magazine The Nation.[3]

Early life

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He was born in Mineola, New York, on October 21, 1963, grew up in nearby East Meadow, New York, and attended East Meadow High School.[4][5] His parents were New York City school teachers, both of whom were born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with his father's family originally from Madeira and his mother's family from Sicily.[6] He attended Tufts University starting in 1981, but dropped out before finishing his BA degree in English and American literature and Russian language and literature.[7] He has two sisters, Carin Gonsalves, a physician in Philadelphia,[8] and Dana Gonsalves, a commercial artist in New York City.[9]

Career

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He began working with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1990, going on to co-found the Treatment Action Group (TAG) in 1992, with his colleagues from the Treatment and Data Committee of ACT UP New York, including Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, and Spencer Cox. With TAG, he authored several reports on HIV research, including a critical review of AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health, which led to a reorganization of the NIH's AIDS program by Congress.[10][11] He found out he was HIV+ in 1995.[12] In 2000, Gonsalves went on to join Gay Men's Health Crisis and its Department of Public Policy.[13] In 2006, Gonsalves moved to Cape Town to work for the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa where he was part of campaigns to expand access to antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa.[14] In the mid-2000s, he gave well-regarded plenary speeches at two back-to-back International AIDS Conferences in Toronto and Mexico City.[15][16] He is also a co-founder of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, a collective of AIDS activists from around the world fighting for access to AIDS treatment and other life-saving medicines through education, monitoring and advocacy.[17] In 2008, he received $100,000 as the first recipient of the AIDS Leadership Award from the John M. Lloyd Foundation.[18]

In 2008, he enrolled in Yale College as part of the Eli Whitney Students Program and obtained a BS with distinction in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was an Open Society Foundations Fellow comparing social movements on AIDS, tuberculosis and maternal health in South Africa, Brazil and Ukraine.[19] In 2012, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences obtaining a PhD in 2017, where he also co-founded the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership, the first collaboration between the public health and law schools at Yale.[20] He writes regularly for the popular press and has contributed op-eds and articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Nation.[21][22][23][24][25][26] He joined the faculty of Yale School of Public Health in July 2017. His research focuses on using quantitative models to improve the delivery of services and shape policy-making on HIV/AIDS.[27][28][29][30] At Yale, he is affiliated with the Public Health Modeling Unit and the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine. In 2019, he received an Avenir award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a grant program devoted "to early-stage investigators who propose highly innovative studies [and] researchers who represent the future of addiction science" for his proposal to examine the syndemic of HIV, hepatitis C and overdose in the context of the US opioid crisis.[31]

Awards and honors

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In 2008, he won the John M. Lloyd Foundation's inaugural AIDS Leadership Award.[32] Gonsalves and Mark Harrington are the only two AIDS activists to ever receive a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant".[33] The two worked together and were members of ACT UP and TAG.[34][35]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Gregg Gonsalves, PhD". Yale School of Public Health. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Gregg Gonsalves". Yale Law School. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "Gregg Gonsalves". The Nation. September 24, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  4. ^ Shufro, Cathy (September–October 2015). "Its not just the germs". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  5. ^ "Foundation honors LI native as 'genius'". Newsday. October 10, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  6. ^ Beaubien, Jason (October 4, 2018). "A Global Health Evangelist Is Shocked To Hear He's A 'Genius'". NPR. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  7. ^ "Tufts Magazine Archive Summer 2004". Tufts University. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  8. ^ "Carin F. Gonsalves, MD". Jefferson University Hospital. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "How lucky am I? I get to spend my days doing what I love to do — designing with a purpose, bringing together great storytelling and design". Sequel Studio. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  10. ^ Brown, Phyllida. "The hour of the activist: AIDS campaigners in the US are changing the way the nation's research into HIV is organised. Will other diseases get the same treatment?". New Scientist. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  11. ^ "TAG at 20: Early Campaigns". Treatment Action Group. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  12. ^ "AIDS at 30: an interview with activist Gregg Gonsalves". Science Speaks: Global ID News. May 20, 2011. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  13. ^ "AIDS Activist Gregg Gonsalves Honored". POZ. March 27, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  14. ^ Mbali, M. (March 29, 2013). South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-31216-7.
  15. ^ "The ACT UP Historical Archive: Gonsalves speech: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward". ACT UP NYC. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  16. ^ Mykhalovskiy, Eric; Brown, Glen; Kort, Rodney (October 6, 2009). "XVII International AIDS Conference: From Evidence to Action - Social, behavioural and economic science and policy and political science". Journal of the International AIDS Society. 12 (Suppl 1): S5. doi:10.1186/1758-2652-12-S1-S5. ISSN 1758-2652. PMC 2759034. PMID 19811671.
  17. ^ "Home". International Treatment Preparedness Coalition. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  18. ^ "Leadership and AIDS: Gregg Gonsalves". UNAIDS. May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  19. ^ "Gregg Gonsalves - Open Society Fellowship". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  20. ^ "Gregg Gonsalves Co-founds Law School/Public Health Partnership" (Press release). Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. December 2, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  21. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg (October 28, 2014). "Stop Playing Cowboy on Ebola". Foreign Policy. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  22. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg (May 9, 2017). "We've Got to ACT UP to Stop Trumpcare". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  23. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg; Harrington, Mark; Kessler, David A. (June 11, 2015). "Opinion: Don't Weaken the F.D.A.'s Drug Approval Process". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  24. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg (January 14, 2011). "Obama's zero-sum game in the fight against AIDS". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  25. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg (March 9, 2019). "This is Not A Cure for My H.I.V." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  26. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg (February 8, 2019). "The U.S. really could end AIDS — if the Trump administration gets out of the way". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  27. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg S.; Copple, J. Tyler; Johnson, Tyler; Paltiel, A. David; Warren, Joshua L. (September 3, 2018). "Bayesian adaptive algorithms for locating HIV mobile testing services". BMC Medicine. 16 (1): 155. doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1129-0. ISSN 1741-7015. PMC 6120098. PMID 30173667.
  28. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg S; Crawford, Forrest W (October 1, 2018). "Dynamics of the HIV outbreak and response in Scott County, IN, USA, 2011–15: a modelling study". The Lancet HIV. 5 (10): e569–e577. doi:10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30176-0. ISSN 2352-3018. PMC 6192548. PMID 30220531.
  29. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg; Paltiel, A.; Cleary, Paul; Gill, Michael; Kitahata, Mari; Rebeiro, Peter; Silverberg, Michael; Horberg, Michael; Abraham, Alison; Althoff, Keri; Moore, Richard (August 15, 2017). "A Flow-Based Model of the HIV Care Continuum in the United States". Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 75 (5): 548–553. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000001429. ISSN 1525-4135. PMC 5533168. PMID 28471841.
  30. ^ Gonsalves, Gregg S.; Crawford, Forrest W.; Cleary, Paul D.; Kaplan, Edward H.; Paltiel, A. David (February 1, 2018). "An Adaptive Approach to Locating Mobile HIV Testing Services". Medical Decision Making. 38 (2): 262–272. doi:10.1177/0272989X17716431. ISSN 0272-989X. PMC 5748375. PMID 28699382.
  31. ^ "Avenir Award Winners". National Institute on Drug Abuse. October 15, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  32. ^ "John M. Lloyd AIDS Leadership Award". John M. Lloyd Foundation. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  33. ^ 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.
  34. ^ "Gregg Gonsalves". MacArthur Foundation. October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  35. ^ Staley, Peter (2021). Never Silent. Chicago Review Press. p. 179. ISBN 9781641601429.
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