Jonathan Glenn Betteridge has worked in law, human rights and health for over half a decade. As a practicing lawyer in Ontario community legal clinics, including the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, he provided legal advice and representation, conducted public legal education and participated in law reform campaigns. He used the knowledge and experience gained working with socially marginalized people to inform his work as a senior policy analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, a global leader in HIV/AIDS, law and human rights.

Glenn has led research projects and consultations, researched and wrote a wide range of documents, and engaged in advocacy campaigns—on a range of HIV-related issues, including prisons, criminal law, public health law, HIV testing, privacy and confidentiality, sex work, and income security programs. He also had the opportunity to undertake capacity-building and technical assistance among NGOs, health professionals, public health authorities and lawyers in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean.

Since 2007 Glenn has worked as a consultant at the intersection of law, health and human rights, with a focus on the criminalization of HIV and its public health and community impact.

Laura Bisaillon is a social and health services and policy researcher with expertise in health, medicine, social policy, immigration, human rights, and the law. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium of McGill University’s Biomedical Ethics Unit. Her work focuses on Canadian immigration medical practices and the law, social organization of knowledge, HIV and AIDS, and socio-legal studies. Laura uses critical, ethnographic, and qualitative approaches; striving to provide an empirically informed dimension to policy and law making. From 2008 to 2012, Laura served on the boards of AIDS Community Care Montréal, the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, and the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. She earned an interdisciplinary PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa in 2012. Her doctoral dissertation was an institutional ethnography and the first social science exploration and critique of the inner workings of the medico-administrative practices regulating immigration to Canada for people with HIV. For this work, the University of Ottawa awarded Laura the Governor General’s Gold Medal and the Joseph De Koninck Prize for the best dissertation in the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, respectively. To date, she has published six solo authored articles and one co-authored article based her doctoral research. She is currently working on two book projects: one with Springer Press, and the second with the University of British Columbia Press. She recently initiated and obtained funding for global health research in Ethiopia beginning in June 2013 (http://mherc.net/projects). Additional information posted at http://mcgill.academia.edu/LauraBisaillon.

Scott Burris is a Professor of Law at Temple University, where he directs the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Law Research program. His work focuses on how law influences public health, and what interventions can make laws and law enforcement practices healthier in their effects. He is the author of over 100 books, book chapters, articles and reports on issues including urban health, HIV/AIDS, research ethics, global health governance, and the health effects of criminal law and drug policy.  His work has been supported by organizations including the Open Society Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the CDC.  He has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. and international organizations including WHO, UNODC and UNDP.  He has been a visiting scholar at RegNet at the Australian National University, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Cape Town Law School. Professor Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Yale Law School.

Catherine Dodds is a Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a senior researcher at Sigma Research. She has been undertaking research in the field of HIV prevention for over 13 years and specialises in tailor-made research dissemination for diverse audiences. Her doctoral research explored communication of notions of responsibility through prevention policies. She has extensive qualitative research experience into the interaction between social inequality and HIV prevention need among homosexually active men, and among African migrants to the UK. She has undertaken research and evaluation for a range of funders including Local Authorities, NHS commissioners and third sector HIV services. Catherine is also recognised internationally for her expertise in criminal prosecutions for HIV transmission. Publications in this area include journal articles on responses to prosecutions among people with diagnosed HIV, MSM with diagnosed HIV and among MSM more broadly. Catherine was co-investigator on a recent qualitative study into the impact of criminal prosecutions on the provision of HIV services in England and Wales. For a full publication listing please see: http://www.sigmaresearch.org.uk/go.php?/staff/catherinedodds

Richard Elliott is the Executive Director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.  Before joining the staff of the organization, he was a civil litigator in private practice.  He has appeared before all levels of Ontario courts, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada in two cases related to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure.  He has helped guide the Legal Network’s litigation in key HIV-related court cases in Canada and internationally.  Richard has coordinated student legal aid services for low-income people living with HIV and served on the boards of directors of various HIV and human rights organizations.  Between 2001 and 2007, he was a member of the Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS, the advisory body to Canada’s Minister of Health, and in 2010–2011 he served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.  He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy.  Richard holds an undergraduate degree in economics and philosophy from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. from the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto.  He was called to the bar in Ontario in 1997.  He has authored numerous reports, papers and articles on a range of legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS, appeared before legislative committees, taught or lectured at several law schools, and presented extensively on HIV-related human rights issues across the country and internationally.

Vera Etches, a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s medical school then specialized in Family Medicine and Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) at the University of Toronto.   She served as the first Associate Medical Officer of Health in Sudbury and in 2009 Dr. Etches joined Ottawa Public Health (OPH) as Associate Medical Officer of Health.  Formerly the Program Director for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s PHPM residency program, Dr. Etches remains involved in teaching. Dr. Etches is also committed to strengthening evidence-based public health practice through applied public health research.  Recent projects have involved HIV non-disclosure, and increasing access to HIV testing and treatment for people who use drugs. At OPH, Dr. Etches is the Manager of the Clinical Programs Branch and overseas programs that support some of the least advantaged in the community: the Dental Health Program, the Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program and the Healthy Sexuality and Risk Reduction Program, which provides services for youth and people who use drugs, to limit the spread of communicable diseases.  She works with staff and community partners to improve the population’s health through health promotion and disease prevention services.  Dr. Etches brings to her work a commitment to working in partnership, including seeking and acting on client input.

Martin French is a postdoctoral research fellow studying the social dimensions of technology with an empirical focus on communications and information technology in the public-health and medical-care sectors. At a pragmatic, everyday level, his research program involves forging partnerships that span government, academic, and community-based organizations, and using these partnerships to mobilize innovative best-practices through the creation of evidence-informed policy. From 2010-2012, Martin held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada, and in 2011 he was appointed visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His dissertation, entitled Picturing Public Health Surveillance, examines transformations in Ontario’s public health information ecology following the 2003 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Martin is currently working on a book that examines the impact of criminalization on HIV testing, counselling, and surveillance.

Nicole Greenspan is a PhD candidate in Health Services Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. After obtaining a Bachelor of Applied Science, and completing an internship related to HIV programs and services in India, she completed a Master’s program in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She has been studying, working and volunteering with HIV-related community-based organizations in Toronto since 2003. She is a current board member at the Hassle Free Clinic, and a former employee of the AIDS Committee of Toronto and Toronto Public Health.  Nicole was an inaugural fellow with the University Without Walls, and a recipient of a PhD Studentship from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Award, and a Student Trainee Award from the Social Research Centre (SRC) in HIV Prevention. She is currently a Fellow in the CIHR Strategic Training Program in Public Health Policy at the University of Toronto, where she is working with a group of graduate students on hosting a workshop about the public health response to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure.

Notisha Massaquoi has been an advocate for women’s healthcare globally for the past 25 years.  She is currently the Executive Director of Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre which provides primary healthcare prioritizing racialized women in Toronto. Her research and numerous publications have advocated for improved healthcare outcomes for racialized populations in Canada and her work has appeared in notable academic journals such as Canadian Woman Studies, Canadian Journal of Infectious Disease and Medical Microbiology; Social Science and Medicine. She is also a lecturer for the faculties of social work at York University and Ryerson University. Her latest book is a co-authored anthology entitled Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought.

Alex McClelland is a doctoral student at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Culture and Society, Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Viviane Namaste. His work focuses on sociology, critical law studies and the intersections of criminal law and sexually transmitted infections and diseases. For his thesis, Alex will be examining the lives of people who have been criminally charged in relation to not disclosing their HIV-positive status. Alex is a recipient of the Donald L. Boisvert Scholarship for Gay and Lesbian Studies (2013), and the Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship (2012-2015). Alex is an alumnus of the University without Walls Fellowship of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS (2009), a recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Master’s Award HIV/AIDS Community Based Research (2009-2010), and was awarded the Ontario AIDS Network Person Living with HIV Leadership Award (2008). Alex is also the Chair of the Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC), a member of the AIDS ACTION NOW! Steering Committee and a board member of Prisoners with AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN). Alex has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from York University with a specialized focus on the critical participation of people living with HIV in the AIDS response.

Eric Mykhalovskiy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. He became interested in health research after working with other AIDS activists to establish the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange in the early 1990′s. That experience led to an enduring interest in the social organization of health knowledge, which he pursues through research informed by studies in the social organization of knowledge, Foucauldian work, and anthropologies of biomedicine.  His research, which focuses on HIV/AIDS, has been published in such journals as Social Science & Medicine, AIDS Care, The International Journal of Public Health, Critical Public Health and Medical Anthropology. He recently co-edited a special issue of Social Theory and Health focused on HIV/AIDS (with Marsha Rosengarten) and is co-author of the book Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert (with Lorna Weir).  Eric’s current research focuses on the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure and has been published in Social Science and Medicine and The Canadian Journal of Law and Society He is a member of the steering committee of AIDS ACTION NOW, a member of the board of directors of the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, and a founding director of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV.

San Patten works as a health research and evaluation consultant. (San Patten and Associates) She is also an adjunct professor in Sociology at Mount Allison University (specializing in social policy and non-profit leadership) and is a co-investigator of the Centre for HIV Prevention Social Research based at the University of Toronto. She completed a Masters degree in Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary (1999). She has worked extensively with issues relating to injection drug use and the sex trade. In the last few years, much of her work has focused on new HIV prevention technologies (policy research and development, capacity building and facilitation).