Co-founder of the Treatment Action Group and prominent activist and researcher in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Mark Harrington is a researcher and an activist in the field of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis awareness. His passion for research stemmed from his own HIV diagnosis in 1990. As a result of the diagnosis, he took action to join the group ACT UP to foster connections with government officials for AIDS research. Further, he co-founded the Treatment Action Group to increase AIDS research progress beyond the actions of ACT UP. Through publications and activism, Harrington has cemented himself as a key researcher and policymaker in HIV/AIDS research. For all his work, he received the MacArthur Fellows Program in 1997 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant in 2007.