National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) 10th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit (BHPS)

National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) 10th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit (BHPS) is organized by National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) and will be held from Apr 08 - 10, 2026 at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Theme:
The Syndemic Approach—Strengthening the HIV and Public Health Workforce centers the clinical, community, and broader public health workforce, as key partners in the domestic and global effort to improve overall health among HIV affected communities and communities with the poorest health outcomes. 

Description:
The Summit was launched by NMAC in 2016 to advance PrEP access for communities most-impacted by HIV. We are the nation’s only convening dedicated to translating complex scientific discoveries and biomedical solutions into effective healthcare delivery for the HIV and public health workforce.  This is the place where science meets action—translating cutting-edge research into real-world strategies for HIV prevention.

In its 10th year, the 2026 Summit is set to expand its focus by addressing HIV from a syndemic, whole-person perspective and is integrating the broader clinical and public health workforce (see audiences below). As we celebrate a decade of progress, we’re reimagining what’s possible. This is our moment to embrace a whole-person approach to prevention—because HIV does not exist in isolation, and neither should our solutions.

This year’s theme, “The Syndemic Approach—Strengthening the HIV and Public Health Workforce” centers the clinical, community, and broader public health workforce as key partners in the effort to improve overall health among HIV affected communities and communities with the poorest health outcomes. 

Using systems thinking, syndemic and whole-person theory, and organizational development and management strategies, the Summit will serve as a training and recruitment hub that strengthens the technical and leadership skills of the clinical, community, and public health workforce, as well as a pipeline to recruit new public and global health professionals.

2026 Summit Goals:

• Elevate technical skills of the public health and clinical workforces to serve as front-line leaders in HIV prevention and integrated whole-person care.
• Expand engagement of clinical providers cadres who assess, counsel, treat, and refer patients for preventative care.
• Provide a recruitment pipeline to increase representation of members from the global majority and rural communities into the clinical and public health workforces.
• Reframe HIV prevention in ways that leverage systems thinking theory and align with syndemic strategies to improve health response systems.
• Focus Upstream by developing the public health and clinical workforces’ skills to identify, respond to, and deconstruct the political determinants fueling the HIV epidemic and broader health inequities.