FXB Center Work in Progress Seminar: Update on The Constellations Project and RESPND-MI (Mpox)

Join this François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center work in progress (WIP) seminar to hear Dr. Makofane discuss two projects which he has been working on since 2022. The Constellations Project aims to 1) provide a data-based analysis of structural racism in public health scholarship, 2) provide easily digestible data on research collaborations to the public, and 3) foster dialogue about health equity in research. The RESPND-MI project is a LGBTQ+ community-led survey of MPOX symptoms and networks among queer and trans people in New York City.

Speaker: Keletso Makofane, PhD

Keletso Makofane, PhD is an FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow. He is a public health researcher and activist who works in the global HIV response with a focus on sexual minority men in east and southern Africa. He was previously a member of the governing council for the International Aids Society, and sits on the board of LVCT Health, a leading HIV service organization in Kenya. He also sits on the founding board of Global Black Gay Men Connect, an activist collective that aims to build power to stop discrimination and violence inflicted on Black, gay men around the world. Makofane has served on various working groups and committees that shape the global response to HIV. These include the Guidelines Development Group for the first comprehensive World Health Organization guidelines for HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, and the IAS-Lancet Commission on the Future of Global Health and the HIV Response.

Moderator: Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, is director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From December 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022 Dr. Bassett was on leave from Harvard and served as New York State’s Health Commissioner.

To register please email Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu.