Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research

In the second episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, Katherine speaks with Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor in Epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of ICAP. They discuss El-Sadr’s formative experience treating AIDS patients in New York City in the early 1980s, as the global HIV epidemic began to emerge; her decision to found ICAP in order to bring HIV treatments to patients worldwide; and ICAP’s contributions to HIV prevention research. They also cover the evolution of PEPFAR, the challenges and opportunities associated with current efforts to reform U.S. global health assistance, and El-Sadr’s emphasis on ensuring people and their communities are at the heart of all health research and service delivery endeavors.

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Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research is an episode from Take as Directed by CSIS Global Health Policy Center | Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 37:47 long.

This episode was published on Dec 11, 2025.

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