Susan Cole, FRSA

Biography

Susan is an award-winning HIV activist, broadcaster, writer and public speaker, advocating for people living with HIV for two decades. She has worked for number of NGOs including the National AIDS Trust & the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and has served as a Trustee of the Children's HIV Association & the Women's HIV charity the Sophia Forum.

She’s particularly passionate about issues affecting women and people from Black communities living with HIV, writing for a number of publications about the health inequalities they face. She was awarded Women of the Year at the last NAZ nOSCARS ceremony for her work with women of colour living with HIV and was recently named as one of the top 10 Black HIV influencers in the UK. 

She leads the community engagement and broadcasting activities for the HIV information charity NAM aidsmap, producing and hosting the award-winning live broadcasts aidsmapLIVE. During the pandemic she has run interactive information workshops for people of colour with HIV and co-hosted & produced aidsmapCHAT, a live broadcast series for a global audience of people with HIV

Susan Cole
Position
NAM, United Kingdom