Anna Grimsrud is the Lead Technical Advisor at IAS – the International AIDS Society – within the HIV Programmes & Advocacy department. She holds a Master’s in Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr Grimsrud worked at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and in implementation science and epidemiology as a scientist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town before joining IAS. Her academic work includes close collaborations with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She has led projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Global Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Grimsrud is a Deputy Editor at the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and serves on a number of national, regional and global technical working groups on HIV. Since 2015, Dr Grimsrud has provided technical and strategic leadership on differentiated service delivery (DSD) to the IAS with the aim of improving access to quality services for people living with and vulnerable to HIV. Her core areas of work include convening the Global Research Collaborative, providing technical support and advocacy to advance DSD policy and implementation and disseminating evidence-based DSD science.
