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Aki Gormezano

Luke Pereira
November 26th, 2025

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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Allan Lal

Jody Jollimore
December 20th, 2016

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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Nathan Lachowsky

Ryan Vande
August 07th, 2016

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

Ryan Vande
August 07th, 2016

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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Dr. David Moore

Ryan Vande
August 07th, 2016

Dr. David Moore is a Research Scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease at UBC. He has been conducting health service and population health research in HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, mental...

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