HIV Transmission and Prevention

Science On Screen® brings you to the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, TN for a screening of It Follows. About the Speaker: Dr. Sten H. Vermund is a professor of pediatrics, Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Vermund was selected as the 2013 Norman J. Siegel awardee for his critical contributions to children's health through clinical research in mother-to-child HIV prevention, quality improvement research for children's HIV services in Africa, and cervical cancer screening in adolescents. An internationally renowned physician-scientist, with over 400 publications, his research career has focused on infectious disease control and prevention in developing countries. He has founded two organizations to spearhead HIV prevention, care, and treatment in Africa and has been acknowledged for his many scientific discoveries with the 2010 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Lifetime Alumni Achievement Award, the 2011 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence from the Global Health Education Consortium, and the 2012 Douglas K. Richardson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. In 2012, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine and named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.