Rebecca Dandridge – Director of public affairs UK&I for HIV, Gilead Sciences has been listed on the 2023 DIVA Power List.To read the article please click here - The DIVA Power List 2023 is here! - (diva-magazine.com)

December 1st marks World AIDS Day, and we want to raise awareness of the HIV epidemic. We want to share stories from people working in the HIV sector and professionals who work to ensure that their workplaces are inclusive of people with HIV. This is a story by Patrick Lee.I often joke with close friends and family that I have been HIV + all of my...

December 1st marks World AIDS Day, and we want to raise awareness of the HIV epidemic. We want to share stories from people working in the HIV sector and professionals who work to ensure that their workplaces are inclusive of people with HIV.Samyell Terry from Gilead Sciences Inc tells us what allyship and World AIDS Day mean to him.What do you wan...

December 1st marks World AIDS Day, and we want to raise awareness of the HIV epidemic. We want to share stories from people working in the HIV sector and professionals who work to ensure that their workplaces are inclusive of people with HIV. This is Karla Quezada-Torres's story.I was born in El Salvador and brought to Los Angeles, CA, at the age o...

December 1st marks World AIDS Day, and we want to raise awareness of the HIV epidemic. We want to share stories from people working in the HIV sector and professionals who work to ensure that their workplaces are inclusive of people with HIV. This is Mike Alonso's story.Hi Mike - thanks for chatting with us! Can you tell us about yourself?My nam...

myGwork spoke to Karen Paese, Executive Director Clinical Supply Chain Management, Gilead Sciences on what allyship means to her and her role within the PrideAlliance Employee Resource Group. Hi Karen – thanks for chatting with us. Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?I’m Karen Paese and I am the Executive Director Clinical Supply Manag...

By Jeff Larger, Director, Oncology – Pacific Northwest Region at Gilead 1. Golden rule: treat everyone with kindness and respect, especially the LGBTQ community2. Create spaces and opportunities at the table for the LGBTQ+ community to share their voices; a community which is traditionally underrepresented in executive leadership. 3. Ackn...

By Carol Vincent, Director, FOCUS at Gilead My personal experiences in life have helped me make good choices in supporting humanity. In high school, I had two male friends who told me they liked each other. They told me with a whisper that I couldn’t tell anyone. In my youthful naivete, I thought how odd that you just couldn’t love who yo...

Jill Gannon, HIV Regional Sales Director & Women at Gilead Co-Lead, spoke to myGwork about allyship and the role of everyone I the workplace in pushing forward change. Hi Jill – thanks for chatting with us! Can you tell us a bit about yourself?My name is Jill Gannon and I have the pleasure of working with the HIV Community Liaison team par...

From performing in “The King and I” at the age of 6 to being one of the most influential leaders in the Human Resource sector today, Christopher McCormick has established himself as an example for many.Despite being an out gay man in the 90s Corporate America, which was considered taboo, he discovered self-confidence and eventually learned how to b...

Gilead, una empresa partner de myGwork, ha anunciado su adhesión al Pacto Social por la No Discriminación y la Igualdad de Trato asociada al VIH, la iniciativa impulsada por el Ministerio de Sanidad del Gobierno de España para, en el marco de los objetivos prioritarios del Plan Estratégico de Prevención y Control del VIH y otras ITS, eliminar el es...

Gilead is spotlighting brave, passionate individuals who are #FearlessForAll.  Idan Barak, Executive Director of the Israel AIDS Task Force (IATF) focusses on education, prevention, testing and counselling and support for people living with #HIV.  Among Idan’s primary goals with his work are to help reduce stigma around HIV and help...

Gilead is spotlighting brave, passionate individuals who are #FearlessForAll.  Gina Brown, who has lived with #HIV for 27 years, calls herself “a social worker by training but an activist by birth.” Through her work at the Southern AIDS Coalition in the United States, she empowers communities to dismantle stigma&...

Gilead is spotlighting brave, passionate individuals who are #FearlessForAll. Ferran Pujol has spent decades supporting and advocating for people living with #HIV. After being diagnosed in the 1980s, Ferran saw the devastation that HIV and the stigma surrounding it caused and began volunteering at advocacy organizations and making public a...

Gilead is spotlighting brave, passionate individuals who are #FearlessForAll.   Since coming out to her family with her transgender identity in 1997, Rena Janamnuaysook has dedicated herself to being #FearlessForAll for her community. She co-founded the Tangerine Community Health Clinic, a first-of-its-kind clinic in Thailand that provides HIV...

This #WorldAIDSDay, Gilead is spotlighting brave, passionate individuals who are #FearlessForAll.  The work happening to help end HIV/AIDS is a movement against adversity, against stigma and against the many other barriers that keep us from our goal to end the epidemic.In conjunction with this year’s UNAIDS World AIDS Day theme (End Inequ...

Gilead España, empresa partner de myGwork, es la primera biofarmacéutica en diseñar e instalar una Menina Solidaria en las calles de Madrid. Cuarenta años después de la detección del primer caso de Sida, la compañía, que ha ayudado a transformar la vida de los pacientes con VIH, se ha sumado a esta iniciativa como homenaje a todas las personas fall...

We believe that building an inclusive and diverse workplace will help us achieve our mission of creating a better, healthier world. As Hispanic Heritage Month begins, we’re proud to share that we’ve received 5 stars for employment in the HACR - Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility’s Corporate Inclusion Index – and we’re committed to fos...

When Rebecca Dandridge was a teenager, she wanted to be a designer for the queen of pop herself, Madonna. “I must have been 17 and I saw a late-night showing of In Bed With Madonna,” Rebecca recalls. “Before then I had liked her and listened to her music, but then she released Vogue and I was drawn to this whole theatrical presence that she had. Sh...

Pau ArbósSenior Business Unit Director HIV at Gilead SpainInterview Town councils have a relevant role in making cities more inclusive spaces with the LGBTQ+ community. During myGwork’s #WorkPride, we have been able to learn about some of these projects regarding health, migration, employment, inclusive sports, culture, and the elderly members...

Pau Arbós Senior Business Unit Director VIH de Gilead España EntrevistaLos ayuntamientos tienen un papel relevante para conseguir que las ciudades sean espacios más inclusivos con la comunidad LGTBI+. En el #WorkPride hemos podido conocer algunos de estos proyectos en las áreas de salud, migración, empleo, deporte inclusivo, cultura...

2020-year-in-review-rising-beyondLast year was a year like no other, as the pandemic affected every aspect of our lives and reshaped the way we work. Gilead rose to the challenge, helping to address COVID-19 while also continuing to innovate and deliver much-needed medicines to people around the world.Gilead did this work in a way that was socially...

Gilead has joined the OneTen initiative, a new coalition aimed at bringing together leaders from some of the largest U.S. companies to hire 1 million Black Americans over the next 10 years into family-sustaining jobs with opportunities for advancement.Joining OneTen complements additional ongoing efforts to support racial equity and social justice,...

By Mark Dresser, SVP of Biomarker Sciences & Clinical Pharmacology at GileadThroughout my education and during the first decade of my career as a clinical pharmacologist, I carried a huge burden. Around classmates and colleagues, I held a secret about who I really was – I was in the closet.I hid this part of my identity because, like many...

Gilead today released its Year in Review 2019, the annual report highlighting the company’s efforts to develop transformative medicines, support employees, partner with communities around the world and grow the business sustainably.“When I joined Gilead in early 2019, I saw tremendous potential to build on the company’s legacy – a legacy that...

AIDS 2020 – the first virtual International AIDS Conference – begins today, with HIV researchers and advocates from around the world coming together online to connect and share the latest scientific advancements in HIV/AIDS.We recently caught up with Hal Martin, Moupali Das and Martin Rhee, executive directors of Virology Clinical Research, wh...

By Daniel O’Day, Chairman & CEO, Gilead SciencesIn the weeks since we learned of remdesivir’s potential against COVID-19, one topic has attracted more speculation than any other: what price we might set for the medicine. This degree of speculation is understandable. Remdesivir, our investigational treatment, is the first antiviral to have demon...

By Chuck Calderaro, Global Head of Technical OperationsKite opened its first cell therapy manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California to manufacture chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell therapy, with capacity to supply treatment to more than 4,000 patients per year, back in 2016.CAR T is a personalized medicine that involves engi...

Written by Rashad Burgess, [email protected] I was in my late teens, I started singing in the choir at my church. It was through this experience that I got to know my true self and it is also where my coming out journey began.It was there, in the context of the Black church, that I first learned about HIV/AIDS.At the time I was first singing in th...

Written by [email protected] Jan Pineda was a child, she saw firsthand the terrible effects cancer had on people she loved. That was why she decided to pursue a career in science – to make a difference for patients with cancer and their families – ultimately becoming a cell therapy specialist at Kite.It’s also one of the things that motivates her...

Written by [email protected] university students applied for summer internships in early March, they did so expecting an in-person experience at a Gilead or Kite site. As it became clear on-site internships would not be possible due to the pandemic, interns, and the company had to adjust to the unforeseen proposition of entirely virtual internship...

Written by [email protected] Kalamitsis and his colleagues at the Hellenic Liver Patients Association (Prometheus) have come up with an innovative model for addressing hepatitis C virus (HCV), specifically screening and linkage to care for people who use intravenous drugs in Athens.Participants are selected using a method called respondent-drive...

Written by [email protected] and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine announced a new partnership to develop a real-time, public-facing and comprehensive health equity data platform to help address the impact of COVID-19 and other diseases on communities of color.Data collected since the beginning of the pandem...

Written by [email protected] than 1.8 million young LGBTQ+ people consider suicide every year in the United States, according to research by The Trevor Project. The nonprofit is the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth.Shira Kogan, Senior Corporate Development Manager at The Trevor Project, has b...

Written by [email protected] California, which is home to more than half of the company’s 12,000 employees, communities already struggling with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic are now facing an early start to the wildfire season, with some of the biggest fires in the state’s history. Since Aug. 15, lightning strikes have caused more...

Alex KALOMPARIS FROM GILEAD TALKS ABOUT DESTIGMATISING HIV “The battle against HIV is made harder when there’s stigma against the community,” says Alex Kalomparis from Gilead. He talks to Louise Sinnerton from myGwork about how destigmatising HIV and the LGBTQ+ community go hand in hand.When Alex was progressing through his career, there were...

We need to make the topic of LGBTQI+ constantly relevant, and engaging, rather than something scary to talk about” says Sabrina Barbic, General Manager at Gilead in the Netherlands, talking to myGwork’s Louise Sinnerton.Sabrina moved to Amsterdam six months ago from Australia, with her partner and children. This is her second ti...

Graeme A. RobertsonOn the launch of World Aids Day, the gains in expanding HIV treatment to those living in developing countries is one of the world’s greatest public health success stories. However, what can be done for the many people who are still in need of treatment?Fifteen years ago, HIV was a deadly disease that was almost unchecked by medic...

By KATHRYN NAVEInnovations in HIV treatment will enable more people to live longer, healthier lives, and also prevent new infectionsRomas Geleziunas has been working in HIV research since the mid-80s, when HIV infection invariably led to AIDS and death, and he believes the development of effective HIV treatment is one of the standout achieveme...