Alexandra Calmy –MD, FMH, PhD, Prof. Dr., Head of HIV unit, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland.
Prof Alexandra Calmy is a medical doctor, trained in internal medicine and in Infectious diseases (FMH), and holds a PhD in clinical research PhD in HIV/AIDS obtained in Sydney, Australia . She is currently an associate Professor and head of the HIV/AIDS Unit in Geneva University Hospitals.
Prof Calmy’s research interest focuses on public health and humanitarian response to HIV/AIDS, specifically provision of antiretroviral therapy and management of side effects in resource limited settings. She has worked as a medical doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières in Cambodia in 1996 and has subsequently supported MSF’s HIV/AIDS work for more than 10 years.
She is a member of WHO working groups on the writing and the implementation of guidelines related to the treatment of HIV in developing countries since 2001, head of expert committee at the “Agence National de Recherche sur le SIDA” (ANRS), member of the scientific board of the Swiss HIV Study Cohort (SHCS), and the Federal commission of Sexual Health in Switzerland.