Sophie Strachan – Director

Sophie StrachanSophie has been an advocate for women and HIV for 18 years. She has provided policy advice to public health organisations, NHS England, NICE, NGOs and academics, advocating both nationally and internationally.

Sophie’s work includes advocacy on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) access for women, and she sits on the Community Advisory Board for Public Health England’s PrEP IMPACT Trial. Sophie is 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. Sophie is an advisory group member for the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, advocating for drug users and people incarcerated living with HIV and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.  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. She is an accomplished trainer and facilitator, working as a freelance consultant for more than a decade.

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.