-+*Junior Investigator Development Award Recipient Nathan Lachowsky is working to understand how gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) use the Internet to seek sexual, social and romantic partners, to build support and information networks and to seek health information. His research aims to inform the outreach services of public health, …
-+*Team Grant Leader; OHTN CIHR New Investigator Josephine Wong works with youth and adults in diverse communities to understand how individual factors (beliefs, knowledge) and societal factors (racism, poverty, homophobia, sexism, social exclusion) interact to produce increased vulnerability and put marginalized communities at higher risk of infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Josephine …
-+*OHTN Policy and Practice Leader Colin Kovacs is a critical bridge between frontline HIV Primary Care and scientists seeking a better understand of HIV infection. He helps engage people living with HIV in research to better treat and ultimately to cure HIV. His work helps ensures that translational research findings are brought back to benefit …
-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Women are more vulnerable to sexual transmitted infections than men. Charu Kaushic and her research team work to understand the environment of the female genital tract and the mucosal immune system in the reproductive tract. The team’s efforts focus on creating barriers to HIV transmission during heterosexual sex by understanding …
-+*OHTN-University of Toronto Endowed Chair in HIV Research Rupert Kaul studies the mucosal tissues that line the vagina, the penis, the gut and the rectum: tissues that are part of the body’s natural defenses against HIV. Better control of HIV in these areas has the potential to improve the health of people living with HIV …
-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Trevor Hart works to develop and test sex-positive, anti-oppressive HIV prevention interventions and psychotherapies for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. His work is both community-based and clinical and relies on a health promotion framework. Research Findings: Analysis of the pilot study of the Gay Poz …
-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Curtis Cooper studies the optimum treatment and care of people living with Hepatitis C (HCV) and Hepatitis C/HIV co-infection (HIV/HCV) Research Findings Curtis Cooper has had an important role in developing and evaluating the use of treatment regimens that do not contain interferon for the treatment of HCV, and continues …
-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair David Brennan looks at the experiences of gay and bisexual men who are marginalized due to age, socio-economic status, ethnoracial identity or sexual orientation, and how their experiences shape both the health risks they take and the resiliency they exhibit. He has a specific interest in men’s use of technology …
