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Dr. Steffanie Strathdee left Vancouver to work in the United
States. She had been the director of the Vanguard Project since
its inception in 1994, as well as being responsible for two
other epidemiological studies at the B.C.
Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS: the Vancouver
Lymphadenopathy-AIDS Study (VLAS), and the Vancouver
Injection Drug User Study (VIDUS).
Dr. Strathdee is now working at
the School of
Hygiene & Public Health at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland, where she will continue to conduct HIV research in
marginalized populations.
Background:
Before
moving to Vancouver in 1993, Dr. Strathdee was a research
assistant with the University
of Toronto's Sexual Contact Study and the Toronto component
of the World
Health Organization's multi-city consortium on injection
drug users and AIDS. She received the Randall Coates
epidemiology prize from the Department of Preventive Medicine
and Biostatistics at the University of Toronto.
Her recent research on risk
behaviours in injection drug users earned Dr. Strathdee the
International Young Investigators Award in Epidemiology,
presented by the XI
International Conference on AIDS held in Vancouver in 1996.
Education:
Dr.
Strathdee received her PhD in Epidemiology in 1994 from the
University of Toronto, after completing a BSc in Microbiology
and an MSc in Epidemiology.
Awards:
- Dr. Strathdee won the Young
Investigators Award in Epidemiology from the XI
International conference on AIDS for her presentation "Social
determinants predict needle sharing behaviour among
injection drug users in Vancouver."
- Dr. Strathdee has been named a
National Health Scholar for the five-year period beginning
September 1997. This prestigious award is granted by the National
Health Research and Development Program, Health
Canada. Her research projects will focus on determinants
of HIV incidence and risk behaviours among prospective
studies of young men having sex with men and injection drug
users in Vancouver.
- Last year Dr. Strathdee was
named one of the "100
Canadians to Watch" by Maclean's Magazine, in their
1997 Canada Day issue.
- This year Dr. Strathdee was
named one of the "Top
40 Under 40" by the Financial Post Magazine, in
their April 1998 issue.
Dr. Strathdee can now
be reached in Baltimore at (410)614-4255 or <sstrathd@jhsph.edu>
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