Political Science 179, 001 - Fall 2014 Undergraduate Colloquium on Political Science - Alan David Ross All rights reserved

Guest Lecturers/Panelists: Gregg Alton JD: Executive Vice President, Gilead; Berkeley alum Ambassador Eric Goosby MD: Global Health Science, UCSF; former Global AIDS Coordinator Stefano Bertozzi MD PhD: Dean, School of Public Health; former Director of HIV at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Course Co-Instructor and Moderator: Veronica Miller, PhD: Executive Director, Forum for Collaborative HIV Research PH 290.11 Session 12 caps the course's lecture content by recruiting three global health giants to discuss the role and responsibilities of public and private organizations in the response to the global HIV and HCV epidemics. From policy advances to facilitate access to life saving antiretrovirals for millions of patients, to challenges in regulatory infrastructure, to the rocky path for point-of-care diagnostics and treatment monitoring technologies, to the recognition that treatment is prevention and key to any containment strategy -- the lessons provided by the expansion and entrenchment of the HIV epidemic, and successes and failures in the public health response are unparalleled in the global health arena. The hesitant but nascent recognition that the HCV epidemic offers equally imperative opportunities and deserves just as strong a response is a chance to reflect on these lessons and find ways to move forward without stumbling on many of the issues already encountered in HIV. The perspectives and reflections of these three global health leaders on these topics provide an exclusive and unique window on global health and will be of great interest to the wider Berkeley, UCSF and Bay Area community. ...