WRI 2026 Participants

Tara DeYampert, MD, joined NICHD's Division of Extramural Research (DER) as a program officer in January 2024. She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist.

Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO is an attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and a translational investigator whose research focuses on the long-term health consequences of HIV in children, adolescents, and adults in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa.

Brenice Duroseau is a nurse practitioner in Maryland with specializations in obstetrics, infectious diseases and addiction medicine.

Olivia G. Ford (she/her; they/them), The Well Project's editorial director, has been engaged with HIV-related media since 2007.

Alora Gale is a Seattle-based HIV advocate, patient educator, and public speaker. Her work is grounded in community wisdom, culturally competent care, and health equity.

Shayla Knighton-Black, MPH, is a public health leader and DrPH candidate with more than a decade of experience in HIV prevention, care, capacity building, and health equity.

Edward Machtinger, MD, Professor of Medicine, is Director of the Women's HIV Program (WHP) and Director of the Center to Advance Trauma-informed Health Care (CTHC) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Leslie Marshall, PhD, was appointed Acting Deputy Director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August 2025.

Krista Heitzman Martel joined The Well Project in 2009 and has overseen the expansion of The Well Project's online resources including the web portal, social media initiatives, the A Girl Like Me blog, and its mobile application.

Jennifer McKinney MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.