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Dr. Stefano Bertozzi speaks about the future of AIDS, the need for initiatives like aids2031, and the future of leadership in the fight against the pandemic.

Dr. Bertozzi, Ph.D., M.D. is the Chair of the aids2031 Steering Committee and founding director of the Division of Health Economics & Policy at Mexico's National Institute of Public Health (INSP). He directs its Masters Program in Health Economics, offered jointly with the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is a visiting faculty member at both CIDE and the University of California Berkeley. He is currently chairman of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Economics, member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, member of the Editorial Boards of AIDS and Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, former member of the Board of Trustees and of the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association, and former member of advisory boards or steering committees of AIDSCAP, Synergy, ProCAARE, the International AIDS and Economics Network, and several international AIDS conferences and summits. Dr. Bertozzi's research focuses on a diverse range of projects in health economics and policy, the largest concentration of which is on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and on the health impact of large social programs. Before joining the INSP he worked with UNAIDS, the former WHO Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), the Government of Zaire and the World Bank. He was responsible for overseeing the last year of GPA as its Acting Director and Director of Research and Intervention Development before moving to UNAIDS as Coordinator, Policy, Strategy, and Research. At the World Bank he worked with Mead Over on some of the first analyses of the impact of AIDS in developing countries. He has lived in and/or worked with developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America since 1988 and speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian. Dr Bertozzi received his BS in Biology and PhD in Health Policy and Management from MIT, his MD from UCSD and residency training in internal medicine at UCSF.

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