Ontario’s HIV/AIDS Strategy to 2026 (to be launched this fall) emphasizes the need for tailored, integrated health services for populations most affected by HIV. To help achieve the goals of that strategy, OHTN is funding three new Applied HIV Research …
Tony Antoniou

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 …
Isaac Bogoch

OHTN CIHR New Investigator
Isaac Bogoch conducts research to improve access to HIV Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and to assist people using these forms of biomedical HIV prevention in adhering to therapy. His research efforts include …
Anita Benoit

OHTN CIHR New Investigator
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women living with socio-economic insecurities may experiences challenges that create chronic stress and that may negatively affect their quality of life and lead to the acquisition, development, progression and/or worsening of …
LaRon E. Nelson

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 …
Sharon Walmsley

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 …
Paul MacPherson

OHTN Research Chair in Gay Men’s Health
Paul MacPherson’s research aims to develop, implement, and evaluate a multi-faceted healthcare delivery model designed to increase gay men’s involvement and retention in health care tailored to their needs. He and his collaborators …
Winston Husbands

OHTN Senior Scientist
Winston Husbands works to mobilizing research, community and other stakeholders to address and resolve crucial issues that affect the health and wellbeing of African, Caribbean and Black communities, especially in relation to supporting community responses to HIV. …
Claire Kendall

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 …
Mario Ostrowski

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. …