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Please join the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health for our IGH Seminar Series! The IGH Seminar Series is held monthly, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond.

"Road map to Botswana Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"

Our speaker for February is: 
Joseph Makhema, MB.,ChB., F.R.C.P(UK) 
Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute 

Joseph Makhema is the CEO of the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership formerly Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership (BHP), He is an Internal Medicine Physician by Training. He Provides Strategic Leadership, Coordinates and oversees the research and training activities conducted at the BHP. He advises on the selection of Protocols for the Botswana clinical research sites and participates in quality management systems, including monitoring and evaluation of studies conducted at the BHP. He maintains contact with relevant Stakeholders and participates in various Ministry of Health and national technical working groups and committees.  

Dr. Makhema is Co-PI of the BHP Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), affiliated with ACTG, IMPAACT, HPTN, COVPN and site PI for the HPTN and COVPN . He oversees a large team of clinical staff implementing multiple trials in parallel, many under investigational new drug applications at two clinical research sites in Botswana. The BHP has become a center of clinical trials excellence, with successful performance in external trial monitoring including a recent successful European Medicines Authority inspection for the HPTN 084 study. 
 
For more information on the Havey Institute for Global Health, check out the website:
https://www.globalhealth.northwestern.edu