General Information
The HIV Grand Rounds series, offered by UCLA CHIPTS, UCLA-CDU CFAR, and the UCLA AIDS Institute, consists of hour-long lunchtime lectures that are delivered by invited guests or distinguished members of the Institute faculty on a broad range of HIV-related topics.
The aims of the Grand Rounds series are to:
- Share the latest research findings on HIV prevention, care, and treatment, and highlight important developments in HIV-related research.
- Encourage scientific collaborations and networking between UCLA investigators and invited speakers.
- Excite an interest in HIV/AIDS research for early career investigators, and provide resources about new research findings, funding, and career opportunities.
How to register?
Register through Zoom, the link to register for upcoming Grand Rounds sessions is provided here: https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqc-yqrDMsG9dTM3-wm68l7NkjGmhK6vq1#/registration
Our upcoming sessions:
- 9/15/2026 – Derek T. Dangerfield II, PhD
- 10/13/2026 – Priscilla Hsue, MD
- 11/10/2026 – Pending
- 12/8/2026 – Louis Picker, MD
- 1/12/2027 – Antionette Young, MBA
- 2/9/2027 – Michael Corley, PhD
- 3/9/2027 – Julie C. Dombrowski MD, MPH
- 4/13/2027 – Pending
- 5/11/2027 – Susanna Naggie, MD
- 6/8/2027 – Corrina Moucheraud, ScD, MPH
How to access slides?
Email us at chipts@mednet.ucla.edu for available slides.
Our past sessions:
Advancing HIV Prevention Science Beyond Universal Models: Person-Centered Insights for Prevention and Care
- Date: 9/15/2026
- Speaker: Derek T. Dangerfield II, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean of Research University of Tennessee Health Science College of Nursing
- Recording: https://youtu.be/frXIigFXZxo
Clinical Research in the Age of Technology and AI
- Date: 6/16/2026
- Speaker: Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, MPH, MAS, Executive Director of Clinical Research Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- Recording: https://youtu.be/2kaCGB1tz9g
Development of PrEP Implementation Strategies for the General Population of Botswana
- Date: 5/19/2026
- Speaker: Nthabiseng Phaladze, PhD, Professor, University of Botswana
- Recording: https://youtu.be/vhdaAZXwaOM
Reigniting The Fire: The Cell Biology of HIV Latency
- Date: 4/21/2026
- Speaker: Jonathan Karn, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Recording: https://youtu.be/GKNy3VLwqMc
Adolescent Prevention: Lessons from the Substance Use Field
- Date: 1/20/2026
- Speaker: Margie Skeer, ScD, MPH, MSW, Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Recording: N/A
CMV, Inflammation, and Aging in Treated HIV
- Date: 12/16/2025
- Speaker: Peter W. Hunt, MD, Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine, UCSF and Associate Chief for Research, ZSFG-UCSF DOM
- Recording: https://youtu.be/yKt-GK8Qdoo
Shaping the Future of HIV and HBV Therapeutics: Centering Socio-Behavioral Research
- Date: 10/14/2025
- Speaker: Karine Dubé, DrPH, MPhil, Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, UCSD School of Medicine
- Recording: https://youtu.be/SzkdKqai108
HIV-Specific Antibody Responses After Early ART Initiation: Obstacles and Opportunities
- Date: 9/18/2025
- Speaker: Katharine J. Bar, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Penn CFAR, University of Pennsylvania
- Recording: https://youtu.be/YN3FJSWmt_w
HIV Post-Treatment Controllers and the Dream of Living Without Antiretroviral Therapy
- Date: 4/18/2025
- Speaker: Jonathan Li, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Slides: Contact speaker at JLI@BWH.HARVARD.EDU
- Recording: N/A
Innovative Interventions for Sustainable HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Zambia in a Quest to end the Pandemic in Africa by 2030
- Date: 3/18/2025
- Speaker: Henry Fomundam, Pharm.D., Regional Director, Howard University Global Initiative, South Africa & Associate Professor, Howard University Graduate School, Public Health Programs
- Recording: https://youtu.be/jo5p2HpidoE
Developing and Testing a Multilevel Intervention to Promote Viral Suppression in the Dominican Republic
- Date: 2/11/2025
- Speaker: Clare Barrington, PhD, MPH., Professor, Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina, Gilling’s School of Global Public Health
- Recording: https://youtu.be/XsYvtds9V5A
Addiction Medicine is Medicine: Integrating Care to End the HIV Epidemic
- Date: 11/12/2024
- Speaker: Ellen F Eaton MD, MSPH, FIDSA, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Recording: https://youtu.be/vnxQ9Fkky9A
A Two Decade Journey with People who Inject Drugs: Lessons from Back to the Future
- Date: 9/10/2024
- Speaker: Sunil Suhas Solomon, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Recording: https://youtu.be/BkJR2Lpvi-I
Social Network-Based, Peer-Led HIV Self-Testing as a Strategy to Improve HIV Testing Uptake and Linkage to HIV Care
- Date: 3/19/2024
- Speaker: Joseph Matovu, MHS, PhD., Senior Research Associate, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda and Associate Professor, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda
- Recording: https://youtu.be/J8b371fyi84
Bridging the Gap: Cell and Gene Therapies for Latent HIV Infection and Other Low-Antigen Diseases
- Date: 2/13/2024
- Speaker: Christopher W. Peterson, PhD., Assistant Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Slides: N/A
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIojk_Dkys
Identification Of Cellular Immune Vulnerabilities Of AIDS Causing Lentiviruses In Rhesus Macaques
- Date: 10/17/2023
- Speaker: Louis J Picker, MD., Professor and Associate Director, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i423aICKFsA
Using Intensive Longitudinal Measurement to Identify Intervention Targets to Improve Mental and Sexual Health and Reduce Substance Use in Vulnerable Populations
- Date: 9/19/2023
- Featured speaker: Patrick A. Wilson, PhD., Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology, UCLA
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6fL9Cf696g
Optimizing PrEP Uptake Among Youth in Los Angeles and New Orleans via Telehealth Coaching, Online Peer Support and Automated Texting: Results from ATN 149
- Date: 8/15/2023
- Speaker: Dallas Swendeman, PhD., Professor-in-Residence, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSLmzGCZdA
HIV Epidemiology and Prevention with Transgender Men and Transmasculine People
- Date: 7/18/2023
- Speaker: Sari L. Reisner, PhD., Director of Transgender Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Slides: N/A
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNMxyoxX5s
A Behavioral Science Agenda for HIV Therapeutics
- Date: 5/16/2023
- Speaker: Jane M. Simoni, PhD., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Washington (UW)
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7b-H_Hsb3U
SARS-CoV-2 Variants Evolve Convergent Strategies to Remodel the Host Response
- Date: 4/18/2023
- Speaker: Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG)
- Slides: N/A
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aya6dXRD6nM
Challenges of Researching Latina/os and Community-based Participatory Research Approach as a Response to Those Challenges
- Date: 3/21/2023
- Speaker: Maria Cecilia Zea, PhD., Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpshWXrL6oc
Social Immiseration, Changing Drug Use Patterns and HIV Risk among Community-Recruited People who Inject Drugs in Denver, Colorado and Los Angeles, and San Francisco California.
- Date: 2/28/2023
- Speaker: Ricky Bluthenthal, BA, MA, PhD., Professor, Vice Chair for DEI and Associate Dean for Social Justice Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, USC
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8w0ys416s8
Towards a COVID-19 Vaccine to Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Animal Sarbecoviruses Without Updating
- Date: 1/17/2023
- Speaker: Pamela Bjorkman, PhD., David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo2UCXv1mcU
Making a Difference in Health: Focus on the Environment, Not Only the Individual
- Date: 11/15/2022
- Speaker: Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Oregon Health and Science University – Portland State University School of Public Health
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvd5OUPa9A
Beyond Research for Research Sake: Centering Equity and Community Engagement to Advance HIV Research
- Date: 10/18/2022
- Speaker: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD, EdM, Associate Professor with Tenure in Psychology, University of Miami and Director and Founder, SHINE Research Program
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciyhM88TpM
ETR’s Health Equity Framework: From Reflection to Integration and Action for HIV Research
- Date: 9/20/2022
- Speaker: Ifeoma C. Udoh, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Education, Training, and Resource (ETR)
- Slides: Email us for a copy of the slides at chipts@mednet.ucla.edu.
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4Uu6Y0Tgg
Regenerating T Cell Immunity
- Date: 7/19/2022
- Speaker: David T. Scadden, MD, Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
- Slides: N/A
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzRDH6ZQs5U
People Aging With HIV In The US: A Simulation Modeling Approach
- Date: 6/10/2022
- Speaker: Emily Hyle, MD, MSc, DTMH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvhDrzat2e4
Environmental Justice and Women’s Reproductive Health
- Date: 1/14/2022
- Speaker: Tamarra James-Todd, PhD, MPH, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of PH
- Slides: For a copy of the slides contact tjtodd@hsph.harvard.edu
- Recording: N/A
The Politics of Epidemiologic Risk Data in Global HIV Prevention Science
- Date: 12/10/2021
- Speaker: Amaya Perez-Brumer, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, University of Toronto
- Slides: For a copy of the slides contact a.perezbrumer@utoronto.ca
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWY3GT0oI6U
Getting to Zero, San Francisco: Successes, Challenges, and Future Strategies
- Date: 11/12/2021
- Speaker: Susan Buchbinder, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, UCSF and Director- Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GChOJW7Jc
The Enemy of My Enemy: Bacteriophage Therapy to Treat Multi-drug Resistant Bacterial Infections
- Date: 10/8/2021
- Speaker: Steffanie A. Strathdee, PhD, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, UC San Diego and Professor and Harold Simon Chair, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego and Robert T. Schooley, M.D., Senior Director, International Initiatives, UC San Diego
- Recording: https://youtu.be/Eokru_gtggc
Innovations in Digital Health Strategies for Engaging Youth in HIV Treatment and Prevention
- Date: 9/10/2021
- Speaker: Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of N. Carolina and Professor, Dept. of Health Behavior, University of N. Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vLhfJfpyo
Disentangling the Role of Networks in the Transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C Virus among People Who Inject Drugs
- Date: 6/11/2021
- Speaker: Sunil S. Solomon, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38o0tMoC7w
Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir for HIV PrEP: What We Know and What We Need To Know
- Date: 5/14/2021
- Speaker: Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCLA DGSOM and Co-Director, UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hPex-bCWU