Julie Davids

Julie Davids is a Rhode Island-based organizer, research advocate and policy advocate. Currently, she is Senior Consultant at the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), coordinating the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance and assisting with the Prevention Research Advocacy Working Group. 

She also co-chairs the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) and is an External Expert on the Strategic Working Group (SWG) of the Division of AIDS at NIAID. 

She learned the ropes of AIDS activism from the leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia in the first-wave HIV/AIDS direct action protest movement. During that time, she worked on campaigns for needle exchange, health care access, research issues, and the rights of people of all genders. She served on the Community Constituency Group (CCG) of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), where she sat on the Perinatal Transmission Committee.  

She co-founded Project TEACH (Treatment Education Activists Combating HIV), which provides activist and leadership training for people living with HIV at Philadelphia FIGHT, and served as the first community organizer for Health GAP, an activist group dedicated to eliminating barriers to access to HIV/AIDS treatment around the world.