February 13, 2020
What’s a Quasi-Experiment? …and Why Should I Care?
Michael Law, Ph.D. | Centre for Health Services and Policy Research | The University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada
Forefront Lectures
The Forefront Lectures feature speakers who are currently working in the field of HIV/AIDS and promotes collaborative exchange between researchers, clinicians, students, and hospital staff. The Forefront Lectures generally take place a Wednesday of each month at St. Paul’s Hospital. This is a free public event.
January 21, 2020
Harnessing HIV-specific T cells to eliminate latent viral reservoirs
Mark A. Brockman, PhD | Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University | Associate Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
October 7, 2019
An Exploration of Women’s Interest In Long-Acting Injectable HIV Therapy: A Qualitative Study in Six US Cities
Morgan Philbin, PhD, MHS | Department of Sociomedical Sciences | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
September 4, 2019
Timothy Brown, the Berlin Patient: the science behind the world’s first HIV cure
Zabrina Brumme, PhD | Laboratory Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
June 11, 2019
Localized economic modeling to ‘End the HIV epidemic in the US’: A case study across 6 cities
Bohdan Nosyk, PhD | Associate Professor, St. Paul’s Hospital Canfar Chair in HIV/AIDS Research | Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
May 15, 2019
HIV Genetic Networks and Drug Resistance Surveillance in Mexico
Santiago Avila Ríos, PhD | Researcher in Medical Sciences, | Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CIENI) of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), | Mexico City, Mexico
April 29, 2019
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from A Deadly Superbug
Steffanie A. Strathdee, PhD | Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, Harold Simon Professor, Co-director, IPATH | Thomas L. Patterson, PhD | Professor of Psychiatry
April 17, 2019
Injection drug use and food insecurity among people living with HIV-hepatitis C virus co-infection: associations, mechanisms, and interventions
Taylor McLinden, PhD | BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
February 12, 2019
Long-term outcomes for patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
Dr. David M. Moore | Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
January 23, 2019
Migration-Related Determinants of HIV and Sexual Health among Marginalized Women: Barriers, Challenges and Implications for Health Service Delivery
Shira Goldenberg, PhD | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University | Research Scientist, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity | Adjunct Professor, Medicine, University of California San Diego
December 4, 2018
Sex, Equity, and Resistance: A Journey of Women Loving and Living with HIV from the CHIWOS study
Angela Kaida, PhD | CHIWOS PI, | Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University | Valerie Nicholson | CHIWOS Peer Research Associate, | Indigenous Peer Navigator at Positive Living Society of BC, | Member, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
November 14, 2018
Mortality Outcomes Among People Living With and Without HIV in British Columbia: Insights from the COAST Study
Oghenowede Eyawo, PhD, MPH, MSc | CANOC Post-doctoral Fellow & Researcher, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
September 19, 2018
The Impact of Demography on The End of AIDS
Robert S Hogg, MA, PhD | Senior Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
June 28, 2018
Natural Product-Derived Compounds and Traditional Medicines in HIV Suppression, Remission, and Cure Strategies
Ian Tietjen, PhD | Assistant Professor, | Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
April 17, 2018
Expanding understandings of violence against women
Andrew Gibbs, PhD<br /> Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
March 21, 2018
Teams at the frontlines of the opioid crisis are driving system change to improve care
Rolando Barrios - Assistant Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; Senior Medical Director, Vancouver Community Health Services, VCH | Cole Stanley - Medical Lead, Continuous Quality Improvement, VCH; Family Physician, Raven Song Community Health Centre and the Immunodeficiency Clinic
February 7, 2018
Health Care Access and Costs Related to Drug Use from Linked Survey and Administrative Health Data in Ontario
Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc, FRCPC | Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
January 17, 2018
Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Translation at the Dr. Peter Centre
Rosalind Baltzer Turje
November 9, 2017
Unraveling molecular barriers to HIV-1 immune evasion: implications for a vaccine and cure
Mark A. Brockman, PhD | Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University | Associate Scientist, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
October 18, 2017
From HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) to Targeted Disease Elimination to Promote Health Care Sustainability
Dr. Julio Montaner, OC, OBC | UBC Killam Professor of Medicine; | Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; | Head, HIV/AIDS Program at Providence Health Care
September 20, 2017
Assessing Experiences of Sexual Violence across the Lifespan and it’s Associations with HIV Risk Behavior among Transgender Women and Cisgender Persons Living with HIV in the US
Laramie R. Smith, PhD | Professor of Medicine and Global Public Health | Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH) | University of California, San Diego
August 30, 2017
Using multiple data sources to study health outcomes in a vulnerable population
Stuart Kinner, Rohan Borschmann, Jesse Young & Craig Cumming
June 15, 2017
Rates, characteristics and circumstances of methamphetamine-related death in Australia: A national 7 year study
Shane Darke, PhD | National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
June 14, 2017
Knowledge as Prevention The Effect of New Information on Stigma and HIV Testing
Laura Derksen | Rotman School of Management | University of Toronto
May 25, 2017
Findings from a RCT of a Brief, Clinic-Based Safer Sex Program Designed for Young Black MSM Living in the Southern United States
Richard A Crosby, PhD
February 9, 2017
Aging and HIV: Insights from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS)
Amy C. Justice, MD, PhD | Professor of Medicine and Public Health Yale University
January 11, 2017
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention – another tool for HIV elimination in British Columbia
Mark Hull MHSc FRCPC | Clinical Associate Professor, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia | Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
October 26, 2016
Hepatitis C and HIV in Substance Users: Economics of Screening and Linkage to Care
Bruce R Schackman, PhD | Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Policy & Research | Weill Cornell Medicine
October 14, 2016
Making the uncountable count: A public health approach to a world without street children
Paula Braitstein, PhD | Associate Professor | CIHR Chair of Applied Public Health
September 16, 2016
Policy, Place, & Race: Public Housing Relocations & Relocaters’ Biobehavioral Vulnerability to HIV
Hannah LF Cooper, ScD | Associate Professor | Faculty, Behavioral Sciences/Health Ed | Jointly Appointed, Epidemiology | Emory University
September 7, 2016
Injectable Opioids Treatment: Evidence to support its expansion in BC
Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC | Dr. Scott MacDonald, MD, Physician Lead, Providence Crosstown Clinic
June 15, 2016
Modelling the tuberculosis and HIV co-epidemic in South Africa
Leonid Chindelevitch, PHD | Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
April 6, 2016
HIV Quality of Care : Are we there yet?
Rolando Barrios, MD, FRCPC | Assistant Director | BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
March 16, 2016
HPV-Associated Disease in MSM: A Review of Evidence
Troy Grennan, MD MSc FRCPC DTM&H | Medical Head, Provincial HIV/STI Program BC Centre for Disease Control | Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC
February 17, 2016
Preventing Overdose Deaths due to Fentanyl in the Drug Supply
Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, Medical Health Officer Vancouver Coastal Health
January 20, 2016
Supervised Drug Consumption in Vancouver: History, Evolving Practices and Next Steps
Thomas Kerr | Director, Urban Health Research Initiative, | BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | Professor, Department of Medicine, | University of British Columbia
November 26, 2015
HIV & Other STBBIs: Prevention and linkage to care among young men
Jeannie Shoveller, PhD | Professor, UBC School of Population & Public Health | Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences |
November 4, 2015
Near real-time monitoring of HIV transmisson hotspots in BC: Harnessing Big Data for public health
Art FY Poon, MSc, PhD | Associate Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
October 6, 2015
Challenges to research and surveillance in the HIV treatment as prevention era – an Australian perspective
Martin Holt, BSc, MSc, PhD | Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia
September 16, 2015
The Pizza Effect: Implications for life expectancy estimation and patient care
Robert S Hogg, MA, PhD | Senior Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS | Professor, Simon Fraser University
June 3, 2015
Healthcare Utilization and Associated Outcomes Among People Who Use Drugs
Lianping Ti | Research Associate, Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI) | BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
March 18, 2015
UNSW Hepatitis C Vaccine Preparedness Studies 2008-2014
Professor Lisa Maher AM, Program Head and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia
March 4, 2015
Can hepatitis C virus infection be eradicated among people who inject drugs?
Jason Grebely, PhD Associate Professor, Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program The Kirby Institute UNSW Australia
February 4, 2015
Treatment as Prevention: Building on the HIV Experience to Promote Health Care Sustainability
Julio Montaner, MD, DSc(hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FRSC, OBC, OC Director, BC Centre for Excellence on HIV/AIDS, Providence Health Care Professor of Medicine & Head, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia Past-President, International AIDS Society
January 21, 2015
Drug Prohibition and Harm Reduction among People who Inject Drugs in Thailand
Kanna Hayashi, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Research Scientist, Urban Health Research Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
October 1, 2014
Adherence to HIV Treatment and Prevention
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health Professor, Harvard Medical School Professor, Harvard School of Public Health Visiting Professor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
September 17, 2014
Migration, Mobility and HIV/STIs among Key Populations: Evidence From Canada, Mexico and Central America
Shira Goldenberg, PhD Gender and Sexual Health Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
June 4, 2014
Treatment as prevention and HIV risk behaviour among men who have sex with men in Vancouver: The Momentum Men’s Health Study
David Moore Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Physician Lead PHSA STOP HIV Program, BC Centre for Disease Control
May 27, 2014
Ending AIDS: How can we leverage solidarity, science and momentum to reach the next milestone in global health?
Michel Sidibè Executive Director, UNAIDS
May 7, 2014
Hepatitis C Cases and Treatment Options with Newer Therapies
Val Monessori, MD, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
February 13, 2014
Global Advocacy for Equal Access to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment
Karyn Kaplan Director, International Hepatitis/HIV Policy and Advocacy Treatment Action Group (TAG)
January 20, 2014
The HIV Prevention Lab: Clinical Trial and Observational Study Methods
Trevor A Hart, PhD, C Psych OHTN Chair in Applied HIV Research Ryerson University and University of Toronto
October 29, 2013
Prevention as Punishment: Impact of Legislative and Policy Changes Designed to Prevent Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation on Female Sex Workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Professor Lisa Maher Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity University of New South Wales