Join us on Thursday, March 7, 2013, for a presentation by Dr. Kate Shannon, titled “Evidence-Based HIV/STI Prevention, Public Policy and Sex Work”. The presentation will be taking place in the New Lecture Theatre in the Providence Building at St. Paul’s Hospital (Level 1), from 12-1 p.m.Â
Dr. Shannon is Director of the Gender & Sexual Health Initiative at the BC-CfE and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Faculty in the School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia. She leads a large program of NIH and CIHR-funded research on social determinants of sexual health, HIV/AIDS and access to care among marginalized populations, particularly youth, sex workers, and women at-risk and living with HIV.