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About us
Who are we?
We are a transdisciplinary team working together to make things happen!
These are our areas of expertise.
Meet the team
Leadership Team
Dr. Zulma Rueda
Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sexually-Transmitted Infection –Resistance and Control at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Yoav Keynan
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences
Head, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine
Scientific Director, National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases
Margaret Haworth-Brockman Senior Program Manager at the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases.
Researchers & Collaborators
Dr. Katharina Maier
Professor in the Criminal Justice department at University of Winnipeg
Dr. Catherine Card
Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Juan Pablo Isaza
Full-time lecturer and junior researcher at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Dr. Roberto Hincapie
Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin Colombia
Dr. Jared Bullard
Associate Professor and Section Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba.
Associate Medical Director of Cadham Provincial Laboratory, the public health laboratory in Manitoba.
Dr. Diego Muñoz
Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics, Researcher of the Scientific Computing Research Group
National University of Colombia, Medellín
Dr. Beatriz Salazar-Giraldo
Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Diana Marin
Associate professor at the School of Health Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
PhD candidate in Medical Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
Dr. Lucelly López López
Professor and leader of the Public Health Research Group at the School of Health Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
Trainees
Dr. Luisa Arroyave
Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases
Dr. Mariana Herrera
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba
Angela Copete
PhD student at the University of Manitoba
Katherine Peña Valencia
PhD student at the University of Antioquia
Erwin Taguiam
Master student at the University of Manitoba
Will Riaño-Echavarria
Undergraduate student at the University of Antioquia
Ryan Ha
Master student at the University of Manitoba
Liliana López Manjarres
Master student at the University of Antioquia
Sophie Teskey
Undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia
Dr. Megan Sorokopud-Jones
Internal Medicine resident at the University of Manitoba
Dr. Alexander Sharp
Internal Medicine resident at the University of Manitoba
Staff
Heather Pashe
Cultural Advisor at the University of Manitoba
Mariana Echeverri Alvarez
Communications Coordinator at the University of Manitoba
Enrique Villacis Alvarez
Research Associate at the University of Manitoba
Cheryl Sobie
Project Coordinator at the University of Manitoba
We believe all people can embrace who they are,
can define their future, and can change the world.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve people’s lives and health through engagement, science, and capacity building.
To do that, our transdisciplinary team aims to understand how the confluence of several diseases and infections (HIV, pneumonia, tuberculosis and sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections – called syndemics) affects the health of women, men and non-binary gendered people. We blend ways of knowing, disciplines and an extensive network of partners to understand how these syndemic diseases and infections intersect with daily living, because a person’s life is influenced by individual experiences as well as external and structural factors.
Our Vision
We are developing our vision!
Our Partners
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