Benjamin Young, MD, Ph.D., FIDSA

Board Member & Senior HIV Street Medicine Advisor

Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D., FIDSA, is a highly regarded HIV physician-researcher who has spent decades at the forefront of efforts to deliver better medicines and health equity for people living with HIV throughout the world. He now works as a consultant to HIV and street medicine programs, and he serves an advisory role to public health and human rights programs, including Wellness Equity Alliance (a U.S. public health company) and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Bloomberg School for Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

With over 30 years of experience, from 2018-2024, Dr. Young was the Head of Global Medical Directors at ViiV Healthcare, a HIV-only pharmaceutical company, where he supported research and medical education programs around the world. From 2012 to 2018, he was the senior vice president and chief medical officer of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), one of the world's largest organizations of HIV health care providers. Among his responsibilities, he participated in evidence- and human-rights based policymaking at the United Nations and World Health Organization and coordinated capacity-strengthening projects for healthcare workers internationally.

 Dr. Young provided clinical care for people living with HIV in Denver, Colorado for 25 years. Dr. Young began his graduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he received a doctorate in molecular biology and biochemistry working in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech. He went on to earn his medical doctorate in 1992 from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and completed his post-graduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado.

Dr. Young is the author of more than 100 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters relating to HIV and its treatment. He was previously a member of the World Health Organization's HIV Clinical Guideline Development Group and principal investigator with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS), a massive longitudinal analysis of the health of people living with HIV throughout the U.S. Dr. Young is a resident of Colorado and Guanajuato, Mexico and was raised in New York and San Diego, California.