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-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Tony Antoniou’s research aims to understand how people enter and participate in HIV care, the burden of comorbid illness in people with HIV, the services they use and need, and where gaps might exist that compromise this care. His research uses health records databases to understand, and ultimately enhance systems of

-+*OHTN Research Chair in Program Science for African, Caribbean and Black Communities LaRon Nelson’s research aims to improve the “public health toolkit” to support African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) people in Ontario living with and at risk of HIV. His research focuses on high impact field-based public health strategies that involve targeted outreach to marginalized

-+*OHTN Research Chair in HIV Clinical Care and Aging Sharon Walmsley’s research aims to better understand the needs of people aging with HIV, and to optimize that care. Comorbidities such as heart, brain, kidney, bone and liver disease are common as people age, but occur earlier and more frequently in people with HIV. Ultimately, this

-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Claire Kendall’s research focuses on comprehensive disease management for people living with HIV. Research has shown that chronic diseases are most effectively and economically managed in well-supported primary care settings. Her research aims to generate data and interventions to improving the health of people living with HIV and their experiences of

-+*OHTN Applied Research Chair Mario Ostrowski’s research confronts the basic science of HIV with the aim of making new vaccines and curing HIV infection. His work looks at the machinations of the immune system to see where HIV disarms it.  By understanding how HIV blocks the immune system, one can find the Achilles heel of

-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Darrell Tan is an infectious disease specialist whose research focuses on promoting the sexual health of men who have sex with men. His work aims to improve the prevention, detection and management of HIV and other sexually transmitted co-infections such as herpes and syphilis. He is working to identify and implement

-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Lynne Leonard’s program of research aims to have specific solution-focused health impacts on HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) prevention, diagnosis and health system performance relevant to different populations of women (recognizing the intersectionality of their HIV- and HCV-related risk environment), and to women and men who inject and use drugs.