For our second episode, we tackle structural racism and power differentials in HIV care and services within the U.S. We focus on acknowledging current issues and identifying potential solutions that providers can employ in their daily work. Our staff writer Juan Michael Porter II takes the host chair. 

 

We have two guests in store this month: Michael Chancley, M.S.W., and Deb Cohan, M.D., M.P.H.

 

Chancley is a social worker, educator, writer, and HIV advocate whose work in the South has transformed the lives of thousands. He is the communications manager of PrEP4All and the administrator of PrEP Facts: Rethinking HIV Prevention and Sex, a Facebook group that educates over 20,000 on HIV prevention.

 

Cohan is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive services, and family/community medicine at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. She is also the medical director of HIVE, a multidisciplinary clinic based at San Francisco General Hospital that provides reproductive and sexual wellness services to women and couples living with HIV. 

 

Our podcast team: Episode host Juan Michael Porter II; producers Alex Portaluppi and Lucy Mueller; project manager Alina Mogollon-Volk; content editor Maria Elena Perez; and executive editor Myles Helfand.