SFU President Andrew Petter launched the President’s Dream Colloquium in 2011 to create an annual forum for interdisciplinary exchange among students and faculty and to bring leading thinkers to SFU.
This year’s President’s Dream Colloquium will focus on HIV/AIDS.
The colloquium hopes to inspired the next generation of those working to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including advocates and activists, artists, academics, healthcare practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and more by taking a look at the past, present, and future of HIV/AIDS.
The field is currently facing a global reduction in funding due to the progress in biomedical and policy efforts. However, this decrease in funding is creating new challenges in the aim to end AIDS by 2030.
A series of public lectures, followed by networking sessions, will be held every second or third week at SFU’s Burnaby, Vancouver, and Surrey campuses from January 8 to March 27.
Topics will range from working towards a vaccine and cure for HIV, criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, HIV and Indigenous communities, injection drug use, and more.
For a full list of public lecture details and to RSVP for attendance, visit the SFU website.