Our Team

Meet Our Team

Most Significant Change Story: 2014-2018

Terms of Reference

Co-Directors

Jacqueline Gahagan, PhD
Jacquie is a Professor of Health Promotion at Dalhousie University. She has been involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy, activism and research for over two decades. Her current funded program of research focuses primarily on the gendered aspects of HIV/Hep C, STIs and sexual/reproductive health outcomes. Jacquie focuses on policy and programming interventions using sex and gender-based analyses (SGBA+) to address health inequities faced among marginalized populations at high risk for poor health outcomes such as those living with or affected by HIV, HCV or other STBBIs, older LGBTQ+ populations and those involved in sex work.
Email: jacqueline.gahagan@dal.ca
Mobile : 902.414.8646 Office: 902.494.1155 Twitter:@jacquie_gahagan

Lois Jackson, PhD
Lois is a Professor of Health Promotion at Dalhousie University. For over 20 years, she has conducted research with marginalized populations with a particular focus on people who use substances. Much of her work centres on access to health services and specifically, harm reduction services. Her work draws attention to specific challenges of access for those living outside of large urban centres. She has led a number of nationally-funded studies and has presented and published widely internationally, nationally and locally.
Email: lois.jackson@dal.ca
Phone: 902. 494-1341

AIRN Atlantic Regional Research Manager

Joshua Edward, PhD
Joshua is the Atlantic Regional Research Manager at the CIHR-funded Centre for REACH 3.0 in HIV/AIDS & AIRN. Joshua is skilled in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research methodologies in the HIV/STBBI sector(s), and also has extensive experience in Community-Based Participatory Research and public health program evaluation. Joshua's particular research interests include Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and the role of vaccination/immunization policies and programs for queer men and other gender and sexual minorities, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, the development and implications of new biomedical prevention methods for syphilis and other STBBIs, and combination prevention strategies for HIV and STBBIs.
Email: joshua.edward@dal.ca
Phone: 782.414.0682