Dr. Lisa Maher
Program Head (Kirby Institute, UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Australia)
Research Fellow (National Health & Medical Research Council)
This talk is open to the public
A light lunch will be served
For more information, please contact
education@cfenet.ubc.ca / local 63219
The Forefront Lectures are accredited for 1.0 Mainpro-M1 credit (College of Family Physicians of Canada)
Dr. Lisa Maher is a Program Head at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, and a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. She has international experience in research, program development and service delivery with people who inject drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with men and marginalised youth and her current research focuses on the prevention of infectious disease in vulnerable populations. In 2015 Dr. Maher was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medicine in the field of epidemiology, particularly through academic research into illicit drug use.
