| Dr. Carmen Logie, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations, is an Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, & Health, Research Scientist, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, and Adjunct Scientist, at Women’s College Hospital. Her research program advances understanding of, and develops interventions to address, stigma associated with HIV and other health disparities. Dr. Logie has been awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), CIHR Clinical Trials Network, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Grand Challenges Canada, Canada Research Chairs, and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), to lead global research focused on sexual health and rights. She is particularly interested in addressing intersectional stigma and its sexual, reproductive and mental health impacts. Her current research focuses on HIV/STI prevention, testing and care cascades in Uganda, Jamaica, Kenya, and Canada with people with HIV, refugee and displaced youth, LGBT communities, and Indigenous youth. Her co-edited book LGBT Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences was published in October 2019 by the American Psychological Association. Her >185 peer-reviewed publications, cited over 6,000 times, advance knowledge of the mechanisms through which stigma and social inequalities harm health across global contexts. She has a podcast you can find everywhere podcasts are, called Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma with more than 9,000 downloads. She directs the CFI-funded Stigma & Sexual Health Interventions to Nurture Empowerment (SSHINE) Lab. She is a Deputy Editor at the Journal of the International AIDS Society and Editorial Board member at Social Science and Medicine Mental Health and PLOS Global Public Health. You can learn more about her research here. |
