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Professor in Education with 20 years of experience as a consultant, project director, and project coordinator in international health promotion and social-behavioural research; author and editor of over thirty books and two hundred articles on the social aspects of HIV/AIDS and HIV; Chief of the Social and Behavioural Studies and Support Unit for the WHO Global Programme on AIDS from 1992 to 1994; consultant and advisor to UNAIDS, UNDP, UNICEF and WHO; currently Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Associate Professor; Head of the Gender Research Project of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies; specialist in women, the law and human rights; carried out research work for AIDS Legal Network; carried out research and composed a discussion paper on the role of the law in reducing women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS for "Putting Third First", at the satellite conference of the AIDS legal network in Durban, July 2000.

President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) since 1996; expert on: Women in Development, Reproductive Health, Women and AIDS, Qualitative Research, Family Formation and Structure; member of the Sexual Behavioral Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network; Co-chairperson of the Track D, Scientific Planning Committee at the XIII World Aids Conference, Durban; Member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).

Founder and Project Director of the Community Life Project, which developed a sustainable and replicable model of community-level health interventions using multiple channels of communications; Coordinator of the Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy (CAUP); Chairperson of the National Working Group "Africa Alive", an 8-country network for HIV/AIDS prevention among youth.

Currently Humanitarian Coordinator in UNAIDS; former Representative and

Head of large operations in Asia and Africa for UNICEF and UNHCR. Vast UN experience in the field; headed the Emergency Operations of UNICEF; was Deputy Director Africa Bureau UNHCR.

Interim Coordinator in AfFORest, the African Farmers’ Organic Research and Training, Zimbabwe; carried out research in pest management, indigenous knowledge, food security, HIV/AIDS and small holder agriculture; extensive work experience in the governmental and non governmental sectors; author of numerous reports, scientific articles and publications.

Professor of Medical Education; Director of the Centre of Academic Development; Founder Deputy President of the Malaysian AIDS Council; Co-chairperson and Rapporteur General at the 1999 fifth International Conference on AIDS in Asia-Pacific; Deputy President of the National Council of Women’s Organization (NCWO) since 1991; member of the National Council for the Integration of Women in Development (NACIWID).

Coordinator of the National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS; member of several organizations specializing on HIV/AIDS such as: the Society for Women and Aids in Africa, the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP), the National Task Force of Women and AIDS; liaison officer of the PWA Subcommittee at the IX International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa (ICASA) in 1995.

Expert of the Prime Minister Cabinet and UNDP/UNAIDS where he developed a strategic plan on HIV/AIDS prevention for the Government of Kazakhstan; Director of the Public Opinion Research Center; participant of different United Nations Conferences and seminars on HIV/AIDS; Public Health Programs Committee expert at the Soros Foundation; researcher on HIV/AIDS related issues.