Our Team

Trevor Hart

  • Toronto

Dr. Trevor A. Hart is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University. Dr. Hart’s research in HIV prevention and care spans a wide variety of fields, including health psychology, clinical psychology, community psychology, and public health. Dr. Hart’s research is conducted at...

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Shayna Sparling

  • Toronto

Shana Sparling PhD is the National Team Manager of Engage. Shayna has a PhD in Applied Social Psychology, with a speciality in Health Psychology. Her research primarily focuses on the roles of social connection and stigma in the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority men. Her work...

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Robert Hogg

  • Vancouver

Dr. Hogg is a co-Investigator of the Engage Study, and has provided the framework for the study's design, data collection methods and data analysis through his work as a co-Principal Investigator of the Momentum Health Study. Dr. Hogg is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser...

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Dr. David Moore

  • Vancouver

Dr. Moore is a co-Principal Investigator on the Engage Study, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UBC and a Research Scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. He is also the Physician Lead for the HIV Program at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Dr. Moore has...

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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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Eric Roth

  • Vancouver

Dr. Roth is a Co-Investigator of the Engage Study in Vancouver, and has provided his expertise and advise on the selection of standardized and validated instruments for measuring social and behavioural constructs. Dr. Roth is also a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, where he...

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Nathan Lachowsky

  • Vancouver

Nathan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria. 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...

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Dr. Troy Grennan

  • Vancouver

Dr. Grennan is the Physician Lead for the Provincial HIV/STI Program at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Prior to his arrival in BC, he completed training in internal medicine, infectious diseases and medical microbiology, graduate work in clinical epidemiology and a postdoctoral research...

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Dr. Joseph Cox

  • Montreal

Dr. Cox graduated in Medicine from Dalhousie University. He completed Public Health and Prevention Medicine post-graduate training at McGill University, during which he completed an MSc in Epidemiology. He is also certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is...

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Dr. Gilles Lambert

  • Montreal

As medical consultant at the Surveillance Office of the Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec, the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec and the Direction de santé publique of Montreal, Dr. Lambert has been working in the field of STBBIs for the past 20 years. His principle...

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Daniel Grace

  • Toronto

Dr. Daniel Grace is an Assistant 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...

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Abbie Parlette

  • Toronto

Abbie Parlette is the Engage Toronto Coordinator. Abbie previously served as a volunteer with the HIV Prevention Lab in 2017, and as the Engage Toronto Research Associate in 2018. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from Ryerson University, where she majored in Biological Science and minored...

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Jordan Sang

  • Vancouver

Jordan Sang is the Momentum Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Vancouver. He completed his PhD in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and his MPH at New York University. His research focus covers HIV prevention, mental health disparities, and resilience among...

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Allan Lal

  • Vancouver

Allan is the Vancouver Engage (Momentum) Coordinator. He is an anthropology graduate from UBC with a focus on same-sex behaviours cross-culturally. Allan has worked and volunteered in gay men’s health for several years and was heavily involved with Health Initiative for Men, most notably as an...

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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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Paolo Palma

  • Toronto

Paolo Palma is a postdoctoral fellow for Engage, working out of Toronto. His research focuses on people’s attitudes towards marginalized groups and how experiences of discrimination and social support affect the health outcomes of GBM from multiply marginalized communities (e.g., GBM immigrants...

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