On the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, Gregg Gonsalves — global health activist, epidemiologist, ACT UP veteran, and professor at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale Law School — sat down with Students of Color for Public Health, along with CAB members from the Seattle Vaccine Trials Unit, and UW Positive Research for a small dinner and a very open conversation about research, activism, and the future of public health.
For many in the room, this was not just dinner with a professor — it was dinner with someone whose activism helped change how HIV research is conducted, how communities are included in research, and how public health engages with politics and power.