HIV and the Rule of the Law

Schedule of Events

Thursday, September 10
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Open Reception
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. HIV and Human Rights: Where They Stand Today
Introduction/Overview – Professor Doug Cassel, Notre Dame Law School
Keynote – Ambassador Mark Dybul, Former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
 
Friday, September 11
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Access to HIV Treatment & Care at Home & Abroad
Moderator: Jessica Brock, Notre Dame Law School
Marsha Martin, Get Screened Oakland
Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University/International AIDS Advocate
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Populations Most At-Risk for HIV Infection: Issues & Answers
Moderator: Evelyn Tomaszewski, National Association of Social Workers HIV/AIDS Spectrum
Michelle Batchelor, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors
Dr. Doreen Salina, Northwestern University
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Faith-based Approaches to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Moderator: David P. Pusateri, McGuireWoods LLP
Dr. Memoona Hasnain, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School
Kevin Kostic, Catholic Relief Services
Matthew Ellis, National Episcopal AIDS Coalition
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. HIV, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility
Moderator: Shelley Hayes, Chair, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee, S&H Consulting, LLC
Victor Barnes, National AIDS Fund
Brett Pletcher, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Ernesto De La Torre, Chevron, Inc.
4:15 – 5:45 p.m. Bridging the Medical & Legal Communities for People with HIV
Moderator: Professor Sean O’Brien, Notre Dame Law School
Jessica Barth, Wishard Health Services
Fran Quigley, Indiana University Medical School-Kenya Project
Donita Parrish, Legal Aid Society Of Greater Cincinnati
Dr. Virginia Caine, Indiana University School of Medicine

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SPONSORED BY:
American Bar Association AIDS Coordinating Committee
Center for Civil & Human Rights (CCHR)
Chevron, Inc.
College of Arts and Letters		 Eck Institute for Global Health
Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity
McGuireWoods LLP
OraSure Technologies, Inc.

Bibliography of Online Sources and Materials
HIV AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHERE THEY STAND TODAY

ACCESS TO TREATMENT & CARE AT HOME & ABROAD

  • Brook Baker
    International Agreements, Intellectual Property Rights and Their Effect on Access to HIV Medications [PPT]
    ABA AIDS Committee 2007 Fall Meeting
    To find link: scroll down, right column

POPULATIONS MOST AT-RISK FOR HIV INFECTION

FAITH-BASED APPROACHES TO HIV

  • Memoona Hasnain
    Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS Harm Reduction in Muslim Countries

HIV, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

BRIDGING THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV

ADDITIONAL

PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES

Doug Cassel is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights of the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is a scholar and practitioner of international human rights, international criminal and international humanitarian law. On behalf of retired United States diplomats, and leading experts on international law, he has filed several amicus curiae briefs in the United States Supreme Court, involving the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo, and accountability for human rights violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act. He represents victims of human rights violations in Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Venezuela, in cases before the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He has served as Legal Advisor to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador; Executive Council member of the American Society of International Law; co-chair of the International Committee of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Chair of the Independent International Panel on Alleged Collusion in Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland; and consultant to the Department of State, Department of Justice, Ford Foundation, the President of the American Bar Association, and non-governmental human rights organizations.

Amb. Mark R. Dybul is a Distinguished Scholar and Co-Director at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, he served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In this role, he oversaw all U.S. government engagement in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and served as chair of the group’s finance and audit committee. He also served as vice-chair and later chair of the Joint United Nations Programme on the HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) coordinating board and served as a President Bush-appointed member of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before working in the coordinator’s office, he served on the planning task force for PEPFAR and led President Bush’s International Prevention of Mother and Child HIV initiative at the Department of Health and Human Services HHS). At HHS, he also served as the assistant director for medical affairs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health. In 2008, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Georgetown in recognition of his untiring dedication to discovering a cure for HIV.

Jessica Barth is Vice-President of Legal Affairs and Chief Counsel for Wishard Health Services, Indianapolis’s public safety-net health system. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was a litigation associate at the law firm of Baker & Daniels in Indianapolis before joining Wishard in 2004. She currently serves as Chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Health Care Section Executive Committee, is a Certified Professional Healthcare Risk Manager, and serves on the boards of Marion County’s Metropolitan Emergency Communications Agency, the Indiana Health Advocacy Coalition, and the Indiana Federal Community Public Defenders agency. In 2008, she designed and taught the first general health law class ever offered at Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington. In conjunction with several community partners, she helped start the first medical-legal partnership in Indiana, the Wishard Medical Legal Partnership for Children’s Health at Pecar Community Health Center. She also helped launch the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Palliative Care Pro Bono program, a program that matches patients with end-of-life legal issues with volunteer attorneys.

Victor Barnes is Vice President of External Affairs at the National AIDS Fund. Prior to joining NAF in spring 2009, he was the Director of the HIV/AIDS & Health Initiative at the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a non-profit membership organization focused on the development of U.S. trade and investment in Africa. The Initiative brokers public-private partnerships with its corporate members, donors, foundations, and technical assistance providers to address HIV/AIDS and healthcare requirements throughout Africa. Before joining CCA in 2004, Barnes served as the Deputy Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among his responsibilities at the CDC was the Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Partnership, a public-private partnership initiated in 1992 to engage the U.S. private sector in HIV/AIDS prevention in the U.S. He began his career in federal government in 1981 as a development officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was the first program officer with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at USAID and managed the HIV/AIDS portfolio for 35 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He remained with that program for seven years, eventually becoming the Acting Chief of the Division before going to the CDC.

Michelle Batchelor is Senior Manager, Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities, at the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, which represents the nation’s chief state health agency staff who have programmatic responsibility for administering HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention, education, and supportive service programs funded by state and federal governments.

Jessica Brock is a law student at the University of Notre Dame, where she is focusing on international human rights law. She recently completed an internship analyzing draft omnibus HIV legislation with UNAIDS in Uganda. Originally from Wichita, Jessica graduated from Notre Dame in 2005 with a B.A. in sociology and theology. Her current research interests are using human rights law as an enforcement mechanism in human development, the codification of alternative dispute resolution for use in post-conflict situations, notions of collective responsibility in crimes against humanity, and the implications of the natural law origins of international law. Prior to beginning her legal studies, she spent two years as a missionary in Kyarusozi, Uganda, where she worked as a teacher and community organizer. In addition to her experience in East Africa, Jessica has traveled and studied in Cuba as well as working and researching in Tijuana, México.

Virginia Caine, MD, is an associate professor of medicine for the infectious disease division of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is the director of the Marion County Health Department and is active in several professional medical societies. She is president of the American Public Health Association, the nation’s oldest and largest public health organization. She has served as a member of several professional organizations, the American Venereal Disease Association; National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Prevention and Control of STDs; National Committee for Quality Assurance, HEDIS (Health Plan Employer Data & Information Set); Department of Health & Human Services, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, National Coordinating Committee on Clinical and Preventive Services; and the Department of Health & Human Services Healthy People 2000 Review on Clinical Preventive Services. Among her numerous honors are the Indiana AIDServe “1998 Superstar Award”; the National Medical Association’s “1999 Internist of the Year”; the Indiana Minority Health Coalition, Inc. “Outstanding Service Award”; Indianapolis Business Journal “2002 Health Care Heroes” and “Who’s Who in Health Care”; and Indiana State Health Commissioner Award for “Excellence in Public Health.”

Ernesto De La Torre is Global Coordinator HIV/AIDS for Chevron Corp. Prior to joining Chevron in 2006, he spent 10 years at California State University, Chico, where he coordinated university diversity efforts and educated student leaders in cultural awareness, tolerance and social responsibility. He also spent six years as a diversity & cultural awareness trainer and facilitator. He received both a bachelor’s degree (2001) and a master’s degree (2006) in psychology from California State University, Chico.

Matthew Ellis serves as the Executive Director of National Episcopal AIDS Coalition and National Episcopal Health Ministries (NEHM), based in Indianapolis, and is a member of the National Council of Churches Health Task Force and a founding member of the Anglican Health Network. NEHM educates leaders for Episcopal health ministry and parish nursing; supports those engaged in health ministry in Episcopal congregations through membership opportunities; provides resources to local congregations, diocese and provinces; and collaborates with other faith communities, institutions and health organizations. Matt works in all levels of program development and execution, including with the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition. His previous experience includes working as a Human Services Consultant at Healthy Families Indiana (HFI), Indianapolis, and as an independent contractor in Fort Wayne, Indiana, specializing in policy development.

Gregg Gonsalves has worked in AIDS and TB policy for close to 20 years. He has also been a consultant for the World Health Organization and served on advisory committees at both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health. He co-founded and currently serves on the board of directors of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, an international network with members in over 125 countries around the world working to promote access to AIDS and TB services for all who need them. He is also the chair of the steering committee of the CD4 Initiative at the Imperial College of Medicine (UK), which is developing a simple point-of-care assay for measuring CD4+ T-cells in resource poor settings with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The recipient of the John M. Lloyd Foundation AIDS Leadership Award in 2008, Gonsalves has coordinated regional AIDS and TB treatment literacy and advocacy programs for the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa, a network of African AIDS and human rights organizations. He was Director of Treatment and Prevention Advocacy for Gay Men’s Health Crisis and co-founder of the Treatment Action Group, both in New York City.

Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD, is a medical educator and researcher. She is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Illinois (UIC) College of Medicine, and also holds adjunct appointments in UIC’s Department of Medical Education and the School of Public Health. Dr. Hasnain’s current research endeavors emphasize two lines of inquiry. The first focuses on social determinants of health, with a special interest in HIV/AIDS, and quality care issues for understudied and at-risk populations. Her second line of inquiry concerns the development and evaluation of curricular and teaching interventions to ensure that future health care providers can effectively address quality and health disparities issues. Dr. Hasnain directs UIC College of Medicine’s longitudinal “Patient-centered Medicine Scholars Program” which includes a service learning program for medical students, focusing on HIV/AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and immigrant/refugee health. Her work has received recognition though media coverage and awards and has been presented at scientific meetings and published in peer-reviewed journals.

Shelley Hayes, Chair and a founding member of the ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee and Principal, S&H Consulting, LLC, has substantial experience in HIV/AIDS-related legal issues, both as a Committee member and in private practice. Formerly a trial lawyer specializing in labor and employment cases and representing physicians and healthcare entities in practice-related matters, she now provides consultative services to public and private entities on human resources and employment matters, including gap analyses, needs assessments, meeting and workshop facilitation as well as customized management training. She has developed a number of training modules for employers covering EEO compliance, ADA compliance and HIV/AIDS in the workplace. As AIDS Committee Chair, she has increased the Committee’s focus on addressing legal issues inherent in the HIV/AIDS epidemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color, and on the role of the private sector in reducing the spread of HIV. She established the Committee’s Healthcare Advisory Committee and invited ABA and affiliated entities not previously represented on the Committee to appoint liaisons. That effort resulted in the expansion of the Committee’s membership and breadth of expertise, and has secured financial support for Committee projects from individuals, law firms and corporations.

Kevin Kostic is the University Program Advisor for Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community (www.crs.org). He joined CRS in 2004 after working as a campus minister at James Madison University in Virginia, focusing on social justice outreach. His responsibilities at CRS involve managing the development of the agency’s U.S. education programs and resources geared specifically towards college and university audiences. While at CRS, he has shaped a variety of opportunities for students, staff and faculty, to get engaged in global issues, particularly HIV and AIDS. As a recent example, he is nearing completion of a seven-part online video series entitled Faith, Hope and Treatment: Global HIV and AIDS and the Catholic Church (www.crscollege.org).

Marsha Martin, DSW, is the Director of Get Screened Oakland, an innovative, citywide HIV screening initiative in the Office of Oakland, California, Mayor Ronald V. Dellums. She is the former Senior Deputy Director, Department of Health, HIV/AIDS Administration in Washington, DC. During her tenure there, she is credited with redesigning DC’s HIV response through expanded programs and services for persons living with HIV and the innovative city-wide HIV screening campaign entitled “Come Together DC: Get Screened for HIV.” Prior to joining the Williams Administration in 2005, she as the Executive Director of AIDS Action, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that promotes national policy to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and social services. From 1997 to 2001, she was the special assistant on HIV/AIDS policy to Secretary Donna Shalala at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). At HHS, she developed and implemented the Leadership Dialogue on HIV/AIDS, created and co-chaired the Secretary’s Working Group for Women and HIV/AIDS, and served as a liaison to the Department’s broad constituencies, including the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

Sean O’Brien joined Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights in 2005, bringing with him his experience in international and domestic human rights work. He holds three degrees from the University of Notre Dame, most recently graduating summa cum laude from the Center’s LL.M. program in 2002. His experience includes work with the Belfast law firm of Madden & Finucane before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry, Northern Ireland, and litigation with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights. Immediately prior to his return to Notre Dame, he served as Chief Counsel for Immigration and Human Rights at the Center for Multicultural Human Services (CMHS) in Falls Church, Virginia, directing a legal services program for survivors of torture and war trauma.

Donita Parrish is Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, where she advocates for Legal Aid clients as a part of the Children’s Law and Family Law Practice Groups. She has been the Project Attorney for the Cincinnati Child Health-Law Partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center since its inception in 2008. In her time at Legal Aid, she has represented Legal Aid clients for housing matters and served as a Guardian Ad Litem representing the best interest of abused and neglected children. She was an Urban Morgan Human Rights Fellow at the University of Cincinnati School of Law.

Brett Pletcher joined Gilead Sciences, Inc., in 2005 and was appointed General Counsel in 2009. Prior to being appointed General Counsel, he was responsible for Gilead’s activities in the area of mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint ventures, corporate governance, public reporting, research and development and manufacturing. He led the legal teams responsible for negotiating Gilead’s agreements with Bristol-Myers, Merck and Johnson & Johnson to develop and commercialize one pill once a day regimens for the treatment of HIV, including in the developing world. Prior to joining Gilead, he was a partner in the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer, LLP, where he focused on providing general corporate and transactional legal services to emerging growth public and private companies and venture capital investors. Prior to attending law school he worked as a consultant in the Management Consulting Services Group of PriceWaterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

David Pusateri, liaison to the ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee from the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, is the managing partner of the Pittsburgh office of McGuireWoods LLP. Concentrating his practice in environmental, real estate, and business law, he covers the spectrum of environmental claims, problems and real estate development issues. He has counseled clients in multimillion-dollar clean-ups, environmental insurance coverage cases, complex superfund matters, and has steered clients through the web of environmental regulation in real estate and commercial transactions. As environmental compliance counsel, he has worked closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its state equivalents in negotiating permits, consent agreements, Brownfield clean-up plans, and compliance orders for numerous clients. In the real estate and real estate development arena, he has assisted clients in acquisition, sale, leasing and financing transactions. He also has represented clients in a variety of corporate and commercial business transactions, ranging from multimillion-dollar acquisitions and divestitures, to smaller contractual matters such as employment contracts, purchase agreements and real estate matters.

Fran Quigley is a visiting professor at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, associate director of the Indiana-Kenya Partnership/AMPATH, and a staff attorney at Indiana Legal Services. He is a co-founder of the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE), a human rights law clinic devoted to representing HIV-positive individuals in western Kenya. Fran has served as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana and as a public defender and civil rights attorney. He has also worked as a journalist contributing to several publications. Currently, his column is published twice a month in The Indianapolis Star and other publications. His recent book, Walking Together, Walking Far, chronicles the U.S. and Kenyan medical school partnership, AMPATH, which has become one of the world’s most comprehensive and successful responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Doreen Salina, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She conducts research in several inter-connected areas, including HIV prevention for women involved in the criminal justice system, disenfranchised populations (HIV-positive persons, substance abusers, sexual minorities and communities of color), co-occurring disorders in women (substance abuse and mental illness occurring simultaneously). As Director of Mental Health for Cook County Sheriff’s Department of Women’s Justice Services, she oversees the provision of integrated mental health services for women involved in a gender-specific jail diversion treatment program. She also provides training and supervision for clinical psychology doctoral students and advises the administration on matters related to services and policy. As president of Salina & Associates, Inc., she provides psychological consultations and services for both individuals and agencies, including individual therapy and forensic consultation and testimony in both civil and criminal legal cases, and conducts psychological assessments for adults and children.

Evelyn Tomaszewski, MSW, ACSW, is Senior Policy Advisor within the Practice, Human Rights, and International Affairs Division, National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Her primary responsibility is as Project Director for the NASW HIV/AIDS Spectrum: Mental Health Training and Education of Social Workers Project, which provides training, education, and technical assistance to social workers and allied health and mental health care providers nationwide. She previously oversaw NASW’s work with JCAHO, revised Social Work Standards for Health Care Practice, and staffed equity issues focused on women, gay men, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender persons. She also provided research and practice content for the NASW Center for Workforce Studies. Her recent publications include curricula for the HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project (addressing ethics, adherence, substance use, mental health), and articles in Integrating Disability Content in Social Work Education: A Curriculum Resource (CSWE Education Press); the Social Worker’s Desk Reference (Oxford University Press), and Health and Social Work (NASW Press). She serves as vice-president for CWA Local 2382.