Anna Forbes Email & Phone Number

Based In Washington Dc -- Work Internationally

I work with a range of NGOs, governmental and civil society organizations engaged in addressing women's health, sexual and reproductive rights generally and our HIV risk in particular. Locations listed here only for organizations based outside the US, A cross-section of current and recent clients includes: 30 for 30 Campaign/National Black Leadership Commission on AIDSAIDS Foundation of Chicago American Academy of HIV Medicine ATHENA NetworkAVAC - Global Advocacy for HIV PreventionBETA, San Francisco AIDS FoundationCenter for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)Center for HIV Law and PolicyGemeinnützige Stiftung Sexualität und Gesundheit (GSSG), Köln GermanyGlobal Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), Amsterdam, NetherlandsGlobal Network of Sex Work Projects, Edinburgh, ScotlandInternational AIDS Society, Geneva, SwitzerlandInternational HIV/AIDS Alliance, Hove, U.K.International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), Toronto, CanadaJohn Snow, Inc.NAM Publications/ AidsMAP, London, UKNew HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Advocacy Society, Lagos, NigeriaOpen Society Foundations, Sexual Health And Rights ProjectOffice on Women's Health (within the US Department of Health and Human Services)Our Bodies, Ourselves / Boston Women's Health Book CollectivePalladium, USAPATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) Positive Women's Network -- United States of AmericaRutgers, The Hague, Netherlands SERO ProjectSisterLove, Inc. (in the U.S. and South Africa)The Women's CollectiveUN Women, United NationsUniversity of the Witswatersrand, Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg, South AfricaU.S. Women and PrEP Working GroupUrban Justice Center, Sex Workers Project

Senior manager of staff teams in six global locations. Represented GCM in domestic, international and multi-lateral decision-making venues and via the media. Designed and led GCM activities to assure inclusion of key constituencies including sex workers, HIV positive women and men who have sex with men. Published regularly in peer-reviewed journals, the popular press, and online.

Managed staff in Brussels, Ottawa, Washington DC and Seattle to assure steady growth of GCM’s NGO organizing and capacity-building efforts in Europe and North America. Developed and implemented strategies that generated multi-country political demand to increase funding for microbicide research and development. Built GCM’s profile among HIV treatment activists, LGBT advocates, sexual and reproductive health organizations, and site-level clinical trial staff.

2013 Translational Health Disparities Course

Mss, Advocacy And Public Policy Development

I also took non-matriculated classes at Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. Eight years as member.

Ba, Sociology