The Vancouver Initiative for AIDS Innovation

1001 AIDS Stories is a part of the Vancouver Initiative for AIDS innovation (VI), a Project of Panos Canada.

Shanthi Besso (community education, SFU)

Ryan Clayton (youth educator)

Maggie Catley-Carlson (ex-president, CIDA)

Maxine Davis (director, Dr Peter Centre)

Prof John Harriss (director, SFU School for Inter-national Studies)

Tiko Kerr (artist)

Ed Lee (co-founder, Vancouver AIDS Memorial)

Judith Marcuse (founder, International Centre of Art for Social Change)

Gillian Maxwell (chair, Keeping The Door Open)

Shaheen Nanji (director, interational development, SFU)

Prof James Tansey (Sauder Business School, UBC)

Mahmoud Virani (chartered accountant)

Some other senior advisors have asked to remain anonymous.

William Booth is an educator and development consultant with professional experience with UNDP, UNAIDS, UNICEF and other international agencies and NGOs in more than sixty countries. He was executive director of AIDS Vancouver 2005-8, and is currently at the College of Health Sciences, University of British Columbia, and a board member of the Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network.

Jon Tinker has worked in international development for over 35 years. He was the founder and chief executive first of Earthscan (1974-86) and then of the Panos Institutes (1986-93). During that period he helped pioneer for Earthscan and Panos media briefing documents, thematic information programmes, information capacity-building among Southern media and civil society, and work on HIV-AIDS.

He has been an active member of the Conseil d'administration of l'Institut Panos Paris since its foundation in 1986. He resigned from this position when Panos Canada was formed, and in December 2003 Panos Paris made him its honorary president.

He became a Canadian resident and senior associate of the Sustainable Development Research Institute at the University of British Columbia in 1993. He has been a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow; been environment and development editor of the UK weekly New Scientist; won awards from UNEP (Global 500) and the Association of British Science Writers; and been a member of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

Pieter de Vos has a master’s degree in public health, based on research into the social, political and economic factors that shape the lives of homeless individuals and ultimately influence their notions of individual agency, selfhood and personal health. He has worked for Our Voice Magazine, a newspaper that advocates on behalf of poor people, and been involved in a variety of capacities in the health and social services sector, including counselling street youth and conducting a health needs assessment for the Woodland Cree First Nation. He is also a documentary photographer focusing on such issues as poverty, aging and health.