Our Global Community Engagement Efforts
Help to ensure the ethical and scientific quality of proposed research.
Help to ensure relevance to and acceptance by affected communities.
Establish a process for arriving at standards and best practices in community engagement at international, national, and local levels.
Involve community representatives in the design, development and implementation of clinical trials and distribution of clinical trial results.
Help to ensure the involvement of groups that have been historically under-represented in medical research and who are disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic, such as racial and ethnic minority communities and women.
Community Compass
Community Compass keeps the HVTN community informed about the Network’s research, site activities, and advances in the field of HIV prevention and vaccination. We encourage community members to submit news and event reports to this magazine and make this a true community sharing platform.
Planning an HIV or COVID-19 research educational event for your community?
The HVTN is happy to provide a speaker with knowledge and expertise in HIV or COVID-19 research to speak at your event. Complete our Speaker Request Form and an HVTN representative will connect you with one of our speakers.
The Speakers Bureau is comprised of over 100 researchers working at the intersection of public health, clinical research, infectious diseases, and health equity.