Gregg Gonsalves was born on October 21,1963 and is a global health activist, an epidemiologist, an associate professor at Yale School of Public Health and an associate professor at Yale Law School.
11 Facts About Gregg Gonsalves
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Gregg Gonsalves was born in Mineola, New York, on October 21,1963, grew up in nearby East Meadow, New York, and attended East Meadow High School.
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Gregg Gonsalves's parents were New York City school teachers, both of whom were born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with his father's family originally from Madeira and his mother's family from Sicily.
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Gregg Gonsalves attended Tufts University starting in 1981, but dropped out before finishing his BA degree in English and American literature and Russian language and literature.
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Gregg Gonsalves has two sisters, Carin Gonsalves, a physician in Philadelphia, and Dana Gonsalves, a commercial artist in New York City.
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Gregg Gonsalves began working with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in 1990, going on to co-found the Treatment Action Group in 1992, with his colleagues from the Treatment and Data Committee of ACT UP New York, including Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, and Spencer Cox.
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In 2000, Gregg Gonsalves went on to join Gay Men's Health Crisis and its Department of Public Policy.
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In 2006, Gregg Gonsalves moved to Cape Town to work for the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa where he was part of campaigns to expand access to antiretroviral therapy in Southern Africa.
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Gregg Gonsalves is a co-founder of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, a collective of AIDS activists from around the world fighting for access to AIDS treatment and other life-saving medicines through education, monitoring and advocacy.
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Gregg Gonsalves writes regularly for the popular press and has contributed op-eds and articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Nation.
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Gregg Gonsalves joined the faculty of Yale School of Public Health in July 2017.