Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

(2015-2017). During that time, she was part of an international team of collaborating researchers on HIV and aging in sub-Saharan Africa. Her conference presentations on the topic include "Aging with HIV. Transgender Older Adults: Challenges, Resources, Resilience" (2019; 9th Annual LGBT Elders in an Ever Changing World, Salem State University, Salem, MA), "Older Adults with HIV in South Africa: Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence" (2016; 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA), and "Complementary and integrative health (CIH) use in older adults with HIV" (2016; 21th International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa). Her research has centered on resilience among those aging with HIV, as well as sexual and gender minorities, and can be found in peer-review journals (such as Journals of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, Clinical Gerontologist, Journal of Applied Gerontology) and the book Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health and Aging (Ed. Hardacker et al., Springer, 2019).



Jennifer E. Kaufman, MPH, is a Senior Research Associate at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her current work focuses on older people with HIV, sexual and gender minorities, and health messaging and technology access for older adults. Her interests also include health policy and the economics of aging, and her research on the wellbeing of older adults has covered a range of topics, such as creative aging programs, family caregiving, and racial disparities in the economic effects of dementia. Ms. Kaufman has an extensive editorial background at academic presses, journals, and textbook publishers, and in education and social policy research. She holds a master's degree in public health policy and management from the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy,City University of New York.



Catherine MacPhail, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the School of Health and Society at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has published extensively on HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa where her focus is on understanding how structural issues impact young women's HIV vulnerability and how older adults experience ageing with HIV. She is also working on whether HIV prevention technologies for women might be useful for eliminating HIV in Australia, sexual behaviours of diverse communities, and domestic and family violence. Her research publications appear in high-quality peer-reviewed journals such as Social Science and Medicine and Culture, Health and Sexuality and are widely cited.



Janet Seeley, PhD, is a social anthropologist by training. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before joining the School in April 2014, she was Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia. She worked for the Department for International Development (formerly ODA) as a social development adviser for 13 years (1987-2000). In that role she moved to Uganda 1989-1993 to establish the social science team within the then MRC/ODA/UVRI programme. In 2008 she returned to the now MRC Uganda Unit to head the social science programme. She will hand over her Programme leadership in March 2022. In 2014 she was asked to assist the social science team at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) (Wellcome Trust funded) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She remains a faculty member at AHRI for social science and research ethics. Over 40 years, Janet has led research in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Papua New Guinea on social aspects of health and wellbeing, migration and mobility, poverty and gender.