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Innis Alumni Lecture with Carmen Logie

March 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Free

On March 20, Carmen Logie (BA ’97 Innis, PhD ’10) delivers the 2024 Innis Alumni Lecture, titled “More than clouds and condoms: Connecting climate change and sexual health.” In her lecture, Carmen will discuss drought, flooding, extreme heat, and hunger and their unlikely connections to sexual health. Amaya Perez-Brumer, assistant professor in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Science, will moderate the Q&A that follows the lecture.

Carmen is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

Wednesday, March 20 at 7pm
Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave
Register for this free event below.

Dr. Carmen Logie joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2013 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2022. She is an Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Research InstituteAdjunct Professor, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment & Health, and Research Scientist, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity. She holds the Canadian Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations.

Dr. Logie’s research program advances understanding of, and develops interventions to address, stigma and other social ecological factors associated with HIV and STI prevention and care. She is particularly interested in understanding and addressing intersectional stigma and its sexual, reproductive, and mental health impacts, with a focus on HIV and STI. Her current research focuses on HIV/STI prevention, testing and care cascades in Canada, Uganda and Jamaica with people living with HIV, refugee and other displaced youth, LGBT communities, Indigenous youth, sex workers, and persons at the intersection of these identities. 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 directs the CFI ‘Stigma & Sexual Health Interventions to Nurture Empowerment’ (SSHINE) Lab, collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) and was a guideline development member for the WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Self-care Interventions for Health: Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights, including the Classification of self-care interventions for health: a shared language to describe the uses of self-care interventions.

Dr. Logie has published more than 275 articles. She is Deputy Editor at the Journal of the International AIDS Society and on the Editorial Boards for Social Science & Medicine Mental Health and PLOS Global Health. Her latest book Working with Excluded Populations in HIV: Hard to Reach or Out of Sight? was published in 2021 as part of the Social Aspects of HIV Series. In 2020, Dr. Logie launched the ‘Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma‘ podcast with stigma experts from across the world, with over 20,000 downloads, found everywhere that podcasts are found.

Dr. Amaya Perez-Brumer is a Latinx critical global health scholar, Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Science at the University of Toronto, and a CIHR Canada Research Chair in Global Health Intervention Justice. She is also a status-only faculty member for the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University (2019) and hold an MSc in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2013).

Her scholarship integrates social science theory with innovative mixed methodological approaches to improve HIV prevention intervention implementation and acceptability among people of diverse genders and sexualities globally. She has published two edited books and 73 peer-reviewed articles and is currently the Principal Investigator of a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Award and a SSHRC Partnership Engage Award developing justice-informed global health strategies for gender and sexual minority communities in Peru.

She also serves as an Associate Editor for Global Public Health holds a secondary academic affiliation with the AIDS Clinical Trials Network (ACTG) on A5403 “Giving standardized estradiol therapy in transgender women to research interactions with HIV therapy: the GET IT RIgHT Study”. She is also an early career Bridge Fellow on the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) protocol 094, “INTEGRA: A Vanguard Study of Integrated Strategies for Linking Persons with Opioid Use Disorder to Care and Prevention for Addiction, HIV, HCV and Primary Care”.

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Details

Date:
March 20
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave (Room IN112)
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J5 Canada
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Organizer

Alumni Office, Innis College
Email
alumni.innis@utoronto.ca
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Details

Date:
March 20
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Categories:
,

Venue

Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave (Room IN112)
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J5 Canada
+ Google Map
View Venue Website

Organizer

Alumni Office, Innis College
Email
alumni.innis@utoronto.ca
View Organizer Website