Peter Aggleton is Professor in Education, Health and Social Care, and Head of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex, and holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Oslo and the University of New South Wales. He has worked in the fields of sexuality, health and rights for over 20 years and is the editor (with Richard Parker) of Culture, Society and Sexuality – A Reader (2006, Routledge) and editor (with Sonia Corrêa, Gary W. Dowsett, Shirley Lindenbaum and Richard Parker) of the Sexuality, Culture and Health (Routledge) series. He is the editor of the journal Culture, Health and Sexuality.
Jafari Sinclaire Allen is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the cultural politics of race, sexuality and gender in black diasporas, black feminist and queer theory, and Cuba and the Caribbean. His current research traces the cultural and political circuits of transnational black queer artistry, activism and intellectual life.
Dennis Altman is Professor of Politics and director of the Institute for Human Security, at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of 12 books, including Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation (1971, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey), AIDS and the New Puritanism (1986, Pluto Press) and Global Sex (2002, University of Chicago Press). He has been President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific, and is currently on the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society. In 2007, he was made a member of the Order of Australia.
Ana Amuchástegui is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco in Mexico City. She has done extensive research on sexuality, subjectivity and rights in Mexico, and has published in journals such as Sexualities, Reproductive Health Matters and Culture, Health and Sexuality. She has recently edited (with Ivonne Szasz) ‘Sucede que me canso de ser hombre’ … Relatos y experiencias de hombres y masculinidades en México (2007, El Colegio de México), and is conducting research on the subjective processes different groups experience when advancing rights related to sexuality.
José Ricardo Ayres is Professor in Primary Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His interests lie within the field of young people’s health, reproductive health and rights and HIV/AIDS.
Iván C. Balán is a clinical psychologist and researcher at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University in New York. His current research interests include understanding the relationship between mental health and HIV risk behaviour, particularly among minority men who have sex with men.
Carmen Barroso became the Regional Director of IPPF/WHR in March 2003. A widely acknowledged leader in the field of sexual and reproductive health, she served for 12 years as Director of Population and Reproductive Health of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She was a founding member of DAWN, a network of Third World women, and of the Funder’s Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights.
José Bauermeister is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. His research focuses on interpersonal prevention and health promotion strategies for high-risk adolescents and young adults, particularly young men who have sex with men.
Evelyn Blackwood is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. She is the co-editor of two award-winning anthologies on women’s same-sex sexualities and female masculinities, Female Desires: Same-sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures (1999, Columbia University Press) and Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (1997, Palgrave Macmillan). She was awarded the 2008 Martin Duberman Fellowship by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York.
Cristiane S. Cabral is a doctoral student in public health at Social Medicine Institute, Rio de Janeiro State University (IMS/UERJ) and a Researcher of Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ), in Brazil. She is interested in the studies of youth sexuality, gender relations and reproductive health and contraception.
Carlos F. Cáceres is Professor in the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, and Director of the Unit on Health, Sexuality and Human Development at that same university. He has worked in the fields of sexuality, HIV/AIDS and sexual health for the past two decades. He is an associate editor of the journal Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad and chairs the Board of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society.
Alex Carballo-Diéguez is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute. His research focuses on the determinants of sexual risk behaviour among men who have sex with men and the application of information technology tools to social and behavioural research.
Héctor Carrillo is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (2002, University of Chicago Press). He currently conducts research on sexuality and HIV with Mexican immigrant populations in the USA. He was principal investigator of the Trayectos Study, a large ethnographic study of Mexican gay and bisexual immigrant men in California.
Radhika Chandiramani, a clinical psychologist working on issues of sexuality and rights, is the Executive Director of TARSHI and the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development and the Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship. She has co-edited Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia (2005, Sage).
Ellen Chesler is Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is a biographer of Margaret Sanger and author of numerous articles and reviews in the fields of reproductive health and women’s rights. She spent most of her career in government and in philanthropy, most recently with the Open Society Institute.
Eli Coleman is the Director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of articles and books on compulsive sexual behaviour, sexual offenders, sexual orientation, gender dysphoria, chemical dependency and family intimacy. He is the editor of the International Journal of Sexual Health and past president of the World Association for Sexual Health.
Sonia Corrêa is co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) and is based at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) in Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Voices from the South (1994, Zed) and co-author (with Richard Parker and Rosalind Petchesky) of Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008, Routledge).
Sarah H. Costa is Director of Special Projects and New York Representative at the Global Fund for Women. Before that, she has worked for the Ford Foundation, managing programmes on sexuality and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and women’s rights. With an academic background in demography and social medicine, she has published numerous papers and articles on women’s health and reproductive rights.
Jane Cottingham was until recently Team Coordinator for Gender, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Health and Adolescence in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organisation in Geneva. She cofounded ISIS, the Women’s International Information and Communication Service, and served as the organisation’s director for 13 years. She is a member of THEReproductive Health Matters.
Rafael M. Díaz is by training a social worker and a developmental psychologist. He is director of César Chávez Institute in San Francisco, which conducts research pertaining to the impact of social oppression on the health, education and wellbeing of disenfranchised communities in the USA. Prior to his present post, he conducted research on Latino gay men and HIV at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
Curtis Dolezal is a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. He has researched sensation seeking, drug and alcohol use, couple relationship quality, childhood sexual experiences, psychoendocrinology and sexual risk behaviour as well as methodological issues such as self-reported honesty in sex interviews, and the use of web-based instruments to assess sexual behaviour.
Gary W. Dowsett is Professor and Deputy Director at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne. A sociologist by background, he has long been interested in sexuality research, particularly in relation to the rise of modern gay communities and the HIV epidemic. In 2003, he was elected to the International Academy of Sex Research, and in 2008, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
R. Danielle Egan is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University in New York. Her current research on childhood sexuality is featured in her book (with Gail Hawkes) entitled Theorizing the Sexual Child (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and in several articles. Her ethnography on exotic dance is entitled Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love (2006, Palgrave Macmillan).
Katherine Frank is a faculty associate at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor and a scholar-in-residence in the Department of Sociology at American University. Her current research explores understandings of and approaches to monogamy. Past publications have examined strip clubs and the sex industry, the motivations and experiences of male customers of strip clubs, swinging and polyamory, third wave feminism, popular culture, cosmetic surgery and research methods.
Claudia Garcia-Moreno is Senior Adviser on gender, violence and HIV/AIDS with the World Health Organization. She is coordinator of the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence and has been active for the past 20 years in women’s health, sexual and reproductive health. She has published on all these topics and, more specifically, on violence against women.
Sasha Gear is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa. She coordinates the Sexual Violence in Prison Project, conducting research to gain understanding on the nature and circumstances of sexual violence and coercion happening in men’s prisons. She has published on violence in prisons and the gendered dimensions of male rape. Her primary interest is in masculinities and how different understandings of manhood feed into and shape experiences of violence.
Gloria González-López is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives (2005, University of California Press). Her research interests include sociology of gender, sexuality and diversity; migration studies; sexual violence; masculinities; religion; and sociology of family life. She is currently conducting sociological research on incest in four of the largest urban areas in Mexico.
Sofia Gruskin is Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights and Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, where her work emphasises the conceptual, methodological, policy and practice implications of linking health to human rights, with particular attention to HIV/AIDS, women, children, gender issues and vulnerable populations.
Abigail Harrison is Assistant Research Professor at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center, and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine. She is a social scientist whose work focuses on the interdisciplinary application of medical anthropology, demography and epidemiology in public health. Her current research addresses the social determinants of HIV infection in young people in South Africa.
Gail L. Hawkes is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. She is the author of the books A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality (1996, Open University Press) and Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture (2004, Polity). Her research since 2005 on the history of ideas about the sexual child has been undertaken with Danielle Egan.
Maria Luiza Heilborn is a social anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Instituto de Medicina Social at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and joint coordinator of Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos. She is active in the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society and the author and editor of many articles and books within the field of sexuality.
Julia R. Heiman is the Director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and a professor of psychology and clinical psychiatry at Indiana University. Her career has focused on understanding patterns of sexuality from an integrated psychosocial-biomedical perspective. She has served as President of the International Academy of Sex Research, President of the American Board of Family Psychology, and Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Sex Research.
Gilbert Herdt is a cultural Anthropologist, founding Professor of Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, and the Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC). Previously he has taught at Stanford University and the University of Chicago. His books on the Sambia of Papua New Guinea, gay and lesbian youth, sexual development and sexual culture are well known. His latest work is Sex Panics/Moral Panics (2009, New York University Press).
Jenny A. Higgins is a feminist researcher and sexual health advocate and Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University in New York. She has written about pleasure, sexuality, unintended pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.
Jennifer S. Hirsch is Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality and reproductive health, USA to Mexico migration and migrant health, the applications of anthropological theory and methods to public health research and programmes, and faith-based approaches to public health. Her major publications include A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families (2003, University of California Press) and a co-authored volume, The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV (2009, Vanderbilt University Press).
Peter A. Jackson is Senior Fellow in Thai History in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Studies Review and a general editor of Hong Kong University Press’ ‘Queer Asia’ mono graph series. He has published extensively on same-sex and transgender cultures in Thailand and is currently editing a forthcoming collection of essays entitled Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media and Rights.
Susan Kippax is Professorial Research Fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. Her contribution to HIV/AIDS social research is internationally regarded and she has published extensively. She is a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group and the UNAIDS Prevention Reference Group.
Robert Lorway is a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He has published essays on the lives of ‘queer’ Namibians in journals such as Culture, Health and Sexuality, American Ethnologist and Medical Anthropology. Currently, he completing a new book on Namibian sexualities. He is also engaged in action research among male sex workers in Karnataka, South India.
Paula Sandrine Machado is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil, and an associate researcher in the Núcleo de Pesquisa em Antropologia do Corpo e da Saúde at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her work centres on intersexuality, medical decision making and the anthropology of the body and health. Together with Mauro Cabral, she coordinates the Latin American Consortium on Intersex Issues.
Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College in Los Angeles, California. A medical anthropologist, she works on sexuality, sexual politics and sexual and reproductive rights and health in the Middle East.
Lenore Manderson is Research Professor in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. The author and editor of over 35 books and guest edited issues of journals, she is a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, and was its President between 2001 and 2003.
Diane di Mauro is a faculty member of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Sociomedical Sciences Department of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is the Program Director of the MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative run jointly by Columbia University, UCLA, and the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa. She has worked for over 20 years in the field of reproductive rights and human sexuality.
Andrea J. Melnikas is Program Coordinator for the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council, New York. Her research interests include young people’s sexual health and youth empowerment programmes.
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctor in Public Health programme in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He has conducted ethnographically informed research with youth and young adults on issues related to masculinity, bisexuality, HIV and sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancy and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Cheikh Ibrahima Niang is a researcher and Lecturer at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He has conducted several studies of male same-sex relations in Senegal, The Gambia and Burkina Faso. He has served as the Director of the Gender Institute of the Council for the Development of the Research on Social Sciences in Africa (CODESRIA) and serves as the West Africa Regional Coordinator of the SAHARA (Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance) Network.
Mark B. Padilla is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is a medical anthropologist with training in public health, and has worked for 10 years on HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean. His books include Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (2007, University of Chicago Press).
Vera Paiva is Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary AIDS Prevention Studies Unit (NEPAIDS-USP). She has published extensively on sexuality, HIV prevention and care technologies within a human rights and vulnerability framework.
Richard Parker is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University in New York City and Director and President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW). His most recent books include Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008, Routledge, co-authored with Sonia Corrêa and Rosalind Petchesky) and Bodies, Pleasures and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil (2nd edn, 2009, Vanderbilt University Press). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Public Health.
Rodrigo Parrini is a researcher with the Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research interests include sexuality and masculinity. His publications include the book Panópticos y Laberintos: subjetivación, deseo y corporalidad en una cárcel de hombres (2007, El Colegio de México). He is currently a researcher with the Centro Nacional de Control y Prevención del VIH/SIDA in México.
Mario Pecheny is Professor of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the University of Paris III and works on human rights, health and sexuality issues in Argentina and other Latin American countries. He has published and edited several books, including Todo sexo es politico (2008, Del Zorzal).
Rosalind Petchesky is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW). Her recent books include Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights (2003, Zed) and Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008, Routledge, co-authored with Sonia Corrêa and Richard Parker).
Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, editor of the journal Sexualities and co-editor with John Macionis of Sociology: A Global Introduction (4th edn, 2008, Pearson Prentice-Hall). He has written many books and over 100 articles on sexualities, critical humanism and symbolic interactionism. His most recent book is Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public Dialogues (2003, University of Washington).
Kane Race is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His research has focused primarily on the impact of antiretroviral therapy on gay cultures and HIV discourse. His book, Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (2009, Duke University Press) investigates the political signification of drug regimes in neoliberal contexts, and corresponding practices of ‘counterpublic health’.
Gayatri Reddy is Associate Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on the intersections of sexuality, gender, health and the politics of subject and community formation in India, and more recently, within the diasporic South Asian queer community in the USA. She is the author of With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (2005, University of Chicago Press).
Vasu Reddy is Acting Research Director in the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa). He is also an honorary associate professor and research fellow in gender studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-founder of the Durban Lesbian and Gay Community Centre and Chairperson of the Board of OUT LGBT Well-being (South Africa) and the editor of From Social Silence to Social Science: Same-Sex Sexuality, HIV/AIDS and Gender in South Africa (2009, HSRC Press).
Robert H. Remien is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and director of the Global Community Core and senior research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His research interests include sexual risk behaviour and adherence interventions for HIV-infected adult men and women and the development of behavioural interventions for people with acute HIV infection.
Matthew S. Rowe is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His previous work has addressed sexuality, culture and the institutional and cultural responses to HIV and AIDS.
John S. Santelli is the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. His research focuses on improving research in family planning and reproductive health in the USA and globally, with a focus on young people’s sexual health. He is co-editor of Adolescent Health: Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors (2009, Jossey-Bass).
Rebecca Schleifer is with Human Rights Watch’s Health and Human Rights Division. She has conducted research on a variety of human rights issues, including government restrictions on access to HIV/AIDS information for young people and injection drug users, access to HIV prevention and other post-rape services by survivors of sexual violence and other abuses against people living with and at high risk for HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh, Jamaica, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA.
Fernando Seffner is Associate Professor of Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is trained in history as well as education, and his research focuses on the study of pedagogical methods, the construction of masculinity, homosexuality and bisexuality and social vulnerability in relation to HIV.
Sylvia Tamale is a feminist activist and academic based in Kampala, Uganda. She is Associate Professor and immediate outgoing Dean of Law at Makerere University. She founded and serves as coordinator of the Gender, Law & Sexuality Research Project within the Law Faculty, and has won several awards for defending the human rights of marginalised social groups.
Veriano Terto Junior is Executive Director of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association. He is trained in psychology, anthropology and public health, and his work has focused on the social construction of homosexuality, the social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and HIV treatment access.
Deborah L. Tolman is Professor of Social Welfare at Hunter College School of Social Work and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She was previously director of the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality at San Francisco State University. She is a developmental psychologist whose research has focused on young people’s sexuality, gender development and gender equity. She has published widely on these topics and is a frequent speaker at professional associations and schools.
Ana Ventuneac is a social psychologist and a research project manager at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. Her research focuses on sexual risk behaviour and HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men.
Jeffrey Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at London South Bank University, and a Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has been a pioneer in developing historical approaches to the understanding of sexuality and intimate life, and has published over 100 articles and over 20 books, chiefly on these topics. Recent books include Same Sex Intimacies (2001, Routledge), Sexualities and Society: A Reader (2003, Polity) and The World We Have Won (2007, Routledge).
Bianca D. M. Wilson is a community psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Lesbian Health and Research Center. Her research focuses on the relationships between culture, oppression and sexual health among African American same-gender loving people.