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Scientific Programme Chair
Prof. Morenike Oluwatoyin Ukpong
Prof Morenike Oluwatoyin Ukpong has competency and experience with gender mainstreaming into policies and programs, and programming for key and vulnerable populations including adolescents and young people. She has been a team member, co-lead or lead – in the design and implementation of at least 60 technical reports in the last 20 years; had been engaged with the development of national, regional and international strategic plans, guidelines and documents; and has experience conducting monitoring and evaluation projects including working on global fund projects. In addition, she has vast experience with conducting translational research that has significant import for HIV prevention and the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents; and experience with research ethics and governance including being a member of the CIOMS Working Group on Principles of Good Governance for Research Institutions. She has participated in several agenda‐setting initiatives relating to HIV prevention and ethics issues including being the Chair of the ICASA 2015 Community Programs Committee, Track C Committee member of the 2016 IAS Conference, Track D co-chair for the 2018 IAS conference and Track E Chair for the ICASA 2019/2021 conference. She has several organizational development experiences including her role as the Coordinator of the New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society whose affairs she successfully steered for 16 years from its inception; member of the Peer Review Forum, a coalition of civil society watchdogs overseeing the national HIV response; CASPR, an African Coalition of organizations fostering HIV prevention advocacy in Africa, and AfrNI, an African focused civil society coalition promoting domestic resource mobilization and ethical HIV prevention research conduct in Africa. She currently works as a researcher with the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where she is listed as the 2021 topmost research publisher in the institution and one of the topmost 2% researchers in the world in 2021 by the Standard University Ranking.