Our Team

Darrell Tan

  • Toronto

Darrell H. S. Tan is an infectious diseases physician and Clinician-Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, where he leads the Options Collaboratory in HIV/STI Treatment and Prevention Science (www.optionslab.ca). He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Institute of...

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Dr. Daniel Grace

  • Toronto

Dr. Daniel Grace is a Professor at the University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences. Daniel is a sociologist who conducts research related to the social determinants of health, HIV and STI prevention strategies, and the sexual health of gay men....

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Terri Zhang

  • Toronto

Terri is the Toronto Engage-MESH coordinator. She is a Psychology graduate from the University of Toronto and has been working with sexual and gender diverse (SGD) populations over the years. Her research interests include addressing sexual and mental health disparities among SGD...

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Aki Gormezano

  • Vancouver

Aki Gormezano is a Michael Smith Health Research BC Award Trainee at the University of Northern British Columbia in the School of Health Sciences. He is also affiliated with the University of Victoria and BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. He does community-based health equity research focused...

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Paolo Palma

  • Toronto

Paolo Palma is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. He received his PhD in Social Psychology with a specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations from the University of Western Ontario in 2023. Presently, his work examines experiences of...

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Milada Dvorakova

  • Montreal

Milada joined the Engage team in 2020 as a research assistant. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University and a Master of Science degree in Global Health from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her principal areas of research interest include bacterial...

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Allan Lal

  • Vancouver

Allan is the Vancouver Engage (Momentum) Coordinator. Allan has extensive knowledge of the workings of Momentum/Engage as he started right at the beginning as an RA and moved up to being the Vancouver site coordinator and shared his knowledge with the other sites coordinators. He is an anthropology...

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Dr. Joseph Cox

  • Montreal

Joe (he/him) is a Public Health & Preventive Medicine medical specialist and Professor in the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University. As a medical consultant (Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne Infections team, Direction régionale de santé publique de Montréal and Chronic...

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Nathan Lachowsky

  • Vancouver

Nathan is a Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has conducted HIV and sexual health research across Canada and New Zealand with gay, bi and queer cis and trans men who have sex using interdisciplinary and community-based approaches. He...

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Jody Jollimore

  • Vancouver

Jody Jollimore joined CATIE, Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information, as its executive director in 2022. He has two decades of experience in community-based research, program planning and service delivery. Jody got his start in community health promotion at the innovative “for...

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