Steering Committee Members

Leilia Ahmed
Professor, Women’s Studies in Religion
Harvard Divinity School

K. Anthony Appiah
Charles H. Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosohpy
Chair, Committee on African Studies
Harvard University

Lisa Cook
Lecturer, Economics and Afro-American Studies
Deputy Director, African Research at Center for International Development
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Max Essex
Chair, Harvard AIDS Institute
Lasker Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
Chair, Afro-American Studies
Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
Harvard University

Sofia Gruskin
Director, Program on International Health and Human Rights
François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health

Richard Marlink
Executive Director
Harvard AIDS Institute

Stephen Marks
Director, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health

Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Director, Division of Public Health Practice
Harvard School of Public Health

Peter Rosenblum
Project Director, Human Rights Program
Harvard Law School

Jeffrey Sachs
Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade
Director of Center for International Development
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Cornel West
Professor, Afro-American Studies
Professor, Philosophy of Religion
Harvard University

Elleni Gebreamlak West
Director
African AIDS Initiative