Biography

Sybil Hosek, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. She has over 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of HIV-related research studies and behavioral interventions. She is co-PI of the NICHD-funded Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN). Her research focuses on HIV primary prevention interventions for adolescents and young adults, including PrEP and microbicides, and the development of behavioral interventions to improve uptake, adherence and persistence to these new biomedical strategies. In addition to her independent NIH grants focused on adolescent and young adult gay, bisexual and transgender youth in the U.S., Dr. Hosek has been an investigator on several adolescent/young adult PrEP safety and demonstration studies focused on adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.