Catherine Hankins BA (Hons), MD (Calgary), MSc (London, UK), PhD (Amsterdam) is Deputy Director, Science at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Professor of Public and Population Health, McGill University, Canada; and Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England. A community medicine specialist, she was principal investigator of ‘The Canadian Women’s HIV Study’, studies involving prisoners and people who inject drugs, and population-based epidemiological studies. Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS in Geneva from 2002 for a decade, she led the scientific knowledge translation team focused on ensuring ethical and participatory HIV prevention trial conduct, convening mathematical modelling teams, and supporting country implementation of proven biomedical HIV prevention modalities. She recently developed Good Participatory Practice Guidelines for trials of Emerging Pathogens for the World Health Organization. She chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Scientific Advisory Group of the US National Institutes of Health HIV Prevention Trials Network. She is a trustee of the HIV Research Trust and a member of the International AIDS Society Industry Liaison Forum.
Since late 2014, she has been the Scientific Chair of the annual African INTEREST conferences on HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research in resource-limited settings (2015 Harare, 2016 Yaoundé, 2017 Lilongwe, and 2018 Kigali). Her current scientific interests include implementation science, novel biomedical HIV prevention, and participatory research conduct. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2013.