Professor Diane Havlir

Diane Havlir is Professor of Medicine and chief of the HIV/AIDS Division and Positive Health Program of the University of California, San Francisco. She has worked as a researcher and clinician in the HIV epidemic for more than 20 years. She began her medical career as an intern and resident in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco after earning her medical degree at Duke University Medical School in 1984.

She led early studies of opportunistic infection treatment and prophylaxis including TB and conducted pivotal studies on nevirapine viral dynamics, antiretroviral therapeutic strategies and HIV drug resistance.

She is currently directing several international antiretroviral therapy and HIV coinfections (TB and malaria) trials. She was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigations and is a member of the WHO HIV treatment guidelines committee, a founding member of the WHO

International HIV Drug Surveillance Programme and the North American representative to the Executive Committee of the International AIDS Society.

Diane Havlir received the HIV Research Achievement Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and HIV Medicine Association in 2004. She served as chair of the WHO HIVResNet and its Steering Group.