Visiting Scholar Talk – Networks as a Language for Interdependence: Investigating Complicated Systems in Public Health, by Keletso Makofane.

Keletso Makofane, PhD is an FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a public health researcher and activist who works in the global HIV response with a focus on sexual minority men in east and southern Africa. He is a member of the governing council for the International Aids Society, and sits on the board of LVCT Health, a leading HIV service organization in Kenya. He also sits on the founding board of Global Black Gay Men Connect, an activist collective that aims to build power to stop discrimination and violence inflicted on Black, gay men around the world. Dr. Makofane has served on various working groups and committees that shape the global response to HIV. These include the Guidelines Development Group for the first comprehensive World Health Organization guidelines for HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, and the IAS-Lancet Commission on the Future of Global Health and the HIV Response.