April 3, 2024
Engage held their latest Café Scientifique event last week at the Glad Day Bookshop. The theme of the event: Ask a Queer Sex Scientist ANYTHING! We saw an overwhelming turnout full of burning questions and buzzing discussion!
Read moreMarch 26, 2024
Today, the HOPE Centre Community Symposium was hosted at the OHTN for an invigorating discussion and day-long consultation with community members and organizations. Building on the momentum gained from the Launch event, the HOPE Centre Community Symposium brought together community members, organizations, and researchers from the Centre in a collaborative setting. The symposium’s themes was…
Read moreFebruary 13, 2024
Dr. Trevor Hart latest multi-site Substance And Sex StudY has placed 2nd in the Fall 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition and will be funded for the next 5 years! SASSY will be following on the heels of the Engage Cohort study and will be running concurrently with Engage 2.0. Our SASSY grant is otherwise titled,…
Read moreSeptember 28, 2023
The Institute of Infection and Immunity (III) is aiming to convene its first Community Advisory Committee that includes people with lived and living experience to advise its Institute Advisory Board and Institute Staff on a number of topics. The individuals on this Advisory Committee will not be academic researchers, clinicians or trainees. Rather, these future…
Read moreJuly 27, 2023
This Quarterly Newsletter shares quick facts about injectable antiretroviral among people living with HIV in Ontario and provides a glance at evidence brief “OHTN Evidence Report on Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.” There are also updates regarding OCS Governance Committee membership, two OCS sub-studies, and the OCS study team. You can read the full newsletter at the OCS website.
Read moreJune 30, 2023
Earlier this month, the HOPE Centre officially launched. Housed in the Faculty of Arts at TMU, the HOPE Centre is the first and only Centre in Canada dedicated to combining health research aimed at understanding disparities in sexual and gender minority health. Read the TMU newsletter write-up about our HOPE Centre Launch by Michael Torres HERE!
Read moreJune 16, 2023
Adhm Zahran has been awarded the Canadian Psychological Association’s Scientific Affairs Committee Student Research Grant for his project “Sexual Minority Stress and Alcohol Misuse Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men in Canada”. Congratulations! We are excited to see the positive contributions your project brings to the world.
Read moreJune 16, 2023
Mario Sanchez-Corte, in addition to graduating this spring, has received the Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for his Undergraduate Honours Thesis. Warmest congratulations on your inspiring achievement and graduation!
Read moreJune 16, 2023
Graham Berlin has been selected for an APA research award, receiving the 2023 Malyon-Smith Scholarship for his proposal entitled “Applying the Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Sexual Minority Men Who Use Methamphetamine: An Examination of Rejection-Related Cognitive-Affective Processes.” This is an exemplary achievement. Congratulations!
Read moreApril 18, 2023
Trevor Hart, psychology professor and director of the HIV Prevention Lab at TMU, cites a rise in syphilis over the years, with it going up nearly 300 per cent when comparing data from 2010 to 2019. A lack of testing facilities in a cross-section of communities may be one factor, he says.
Read more