Jorge Sanchez is an infectious diseases specialist from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia with a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington. From 1992 to 2000, he worked as a University of Washington consultant at the Center for AIDS and STI Training, focusing on Central America and Caribbean countries. From 1995 to 2000, he directed the Peruvian STD and AIDS Control Program and was an advisor to the Minister of Health. Since 2000, Jorge has been the principal investigator for DAIDS-funded research sites in Peru serving the HIV Prevention Trial Network and the HIV Vaccine Trial Network (HVTN), the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and the Microbicides Trial Network. Jorge has been actively involved in the development and implementation of the research agenda of these HIV networks, serving as chair, co-chair or protocol team member of several studies and a member of several network research committees. Currently, he is Vice-President of the Centro de Investigaciones Tecnologicas, Biomedicas y Medioambientales in Lima, Peru.
