Steven W. Thrasher, PhD is the author of the award-winning book "The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide." He is also the inaugural Daniel Renberg Chair for Social Justice in Reporting at the Medill School of Journalism and a faculty member of Northwestern University's Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. His writing on HIV/AIDS, infectious disease and LGBTQ people has been published by Scientific American, New York Times Times, Guardian and in academic journals.