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Helen Ward is Professor of Public Health at Imperial College London. Her major contributions have been in the epidemiology of infectious diseases including HIV, sexually transmitted infections and COVID-19. She has pioneered interdisciplinary and participatory methods, advocating public involvement and community engagement across health research Her work has informed public health policy in the UK and globally, with a particular focus on marginalized populations. Her passion for this work was clear from her research with sex workers in the 1980s when she established the Praed Street Project, the UK’s first dedicated integrated health service for sex workers. Co-designed with sex workers, the project saw around 1800 people a year for more than 30 years and served as an international model for HIV prevention.