With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Mona Loutfy is a nationally recognized leader in HIV. She is a Full Professor and Senior Clinician Scientist at Women’s College Hospital and the University of Toronto and runs a clinical practice that cares for 3,000 people living with HIV. In 2006, she launched the Women and HIV Research Program at the Women’s College Research Institute and has been leading research there ever since. She works from a Community-Based Research (CBR) model involving the people that her research will affect at all stages as partners, guided by principles of feminism, equity, anti-racism, and social justice. She is well known for her expertise in CBR, clinical trials, and large cohort studies – most notably the Canadian Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS).