Sophie has been an advocate for women and HIV for over 20 years. She has provided policy advice to public health organisations, UKHSA, WHO, UNAIDS, NHS England, NICE, NGOs and academics, advocating both nationally and internationally.
Sophie’s work includes advocacy on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) access for minoritised communites , and she was a former member on the Community Advisory Board for Public Health England’s PrEP IMPACT Trial. Sophie was the Co Chair of the Women and PrEP sub group for the PrEP IMPACT trial. She currently works as a sexual health advisor at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Sophie sits on the HIV Action Plan Oversight Group and the Vision for HIV in London Community Advisory Group. Sophie sits on Public Health England SHARE (Surveillance of HIV Acquired Recently; Enhanced) Advisory Group.
Sophie is also one of the Global Reference Group members for the World Health Organisation global survey on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights (SRH & HR) of women living with HIV. Her other research has been addressing women’s experience of incarceration whilst living with HIV. A previous steering group member on a research project with Lincoln University, entitled ‘Measuring and Improving the Health and Quality of Healthcare for Offenders on Community Sentences: Developing Recommendations for Commissioners and Practitioners’. Sophie provided peer support for over 10 years working for a national HIV organisation, Positively UK. Sophie’s research includes speaking to people incarcerated living with HIV in UK prisons during the COVID19 pandemic and delivers education awareness as part of a wider partnership to staff and people in UK prisons addressing stigma.
Her on-going commitment is to ensure that all women in all our diversities are provided with a platform so our voices are represented and heard in research, policy design and service delivery.