Sharon Hillier

Position: Richard Sweet Professor of Reproductive Infectious Disease and Vice Chair for Faculty Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Sharon Hillier is an American translational researcher whose interests span reproductive infectious disease and its association with susceptibility to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and the reproductive sequelae associated with these conditions.

Professor Hillier is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh where she holds joint appointments in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Senior Investigator at the Magee-Womens Research Institute.

Dr. Hillier has served in several scientific leadership roles including being an investigator and member of the leadership of the HIV Prevention Trials Network, serving as the PI of the Microbicide Trials Network which has conducted clinical trials of investigational products for prevention of HIV in in the US, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Kenya. She has also served as the chair of the NIH’s Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council and as a member of the NIAID Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council. Dr. Hillier has been on the Program Committee for the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections since 2008 and served as Chair of CROI 2019-2021. Currently, Dr. Hillier is the Executive Director for MATRIX, a project funded by USAID which is conducting research in the US, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Lesotho. She serves an advisor to the World Health Organization.