Becky White, associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received the 2025 Ada Adimora Citation Award from the HIV Medical Association. The award recognizes her leadership in improving HIV care and reducing health disparities for incarcerated women with HIV.
At the UNC School of Medicine, Dr. White teaches in the division of infectious diseases and is affiliated with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. She also serves as director of UNC Infectious Diseases and HIV Services in the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections.
An expert on the interface between public health and medicine, Dr. White was one of the leading physicians who first described the association between the release of HIV-infected prisoners and the subsequent deleterious effect on their viral loads. Alongside a team of colleagues, she conducted the first-ever randomized controlled trial of directly observed antiretroviral therapy versus self-administered antiretroviral therapy in a state prison system. Currently, she is designing an intervention to address HIV prevention needs post-release.
Dr. White holds a master of public health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a medical degree from the University of Virginia.