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 youth, by youth” Head & Hands clinic in Montreal. Before joining CATIE, he was most recently the executive director of Community-Based Research Centre in Vancouver, where he led that organization through five years of growth and organizational development, successfully advocating for queer and trans health at all levels of government. Jody has a master’s in public policy, a beautiful daughter and currently lives in Toronto, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.