Catherine Hankins Catherine Hankins, CM, PhD, MD, FRCPC is Senior Fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam and Adjunct Professor, Department of Global and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal. She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and reviewed for scientific journals and funding agencies in Canada, USA, Africa, and Europe. As UNAIDS’s first Chief Scientific Adviser, she was editor of UNAIDS’ popular science blog HIV This Week and led the scientific knowledge translation team, developing ethical and participatory HIV prevention trial conduct guidelines and convening mathematical modelling teams to support country implementation of proven biomedical HIV prevention modalities. Scientific Chair of annual INTEREST conferences in Africa from 2014 to 2020, Professor Hankins chaired European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership’s Scientific Advisory Committee (2017-2022) and the USA National Institutes of Health HIV Prevention Trials Network Scientific Advisory Group (2012-2021). She co- Chaired Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (2020- 2023) and is an HIV Research Trust trustee, International AIDS Society Industry Liaison Forum member, and board member of AVAC. Named to the Order of Canada in 2013, she was inducted into Canada’s Medical Hall of Fame in 2024.