Kate Shannon PhD, MPH
(she/her)
Dr. Kate Shannon, PhD, MPH (Global Health) (she/her/hers) is a Professor of Social Medicine and an Associate Faculty in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. She is also a faculty member at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) at UBC, and was the original/ founding ED of CGSHE. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Gender Equity, Sexual Health & Global Policy and leads a CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair in Gender-Transformative Sexual Health aimed at advancing more equitable and inclusive sexual health research, policy, and practice in Canada. Dr. Shannon brings over a decade of experience in community-based research, social epidemiology, population health intervention research, and policy evaluation focused on gender equity, sexual health and reproductive justice among communities marginalized due to social, economic, legal, and/or political inequities. She is strongly committed to research that affects change in policy and practice and meaningful engagement with communities. She is currently PI, alongside Dr. Charlotte Loppie (UViC) and Dr. Brittany Bingham (CGSHE/UBC), of the BC Equitable Youth Sexual Health & Reproductive Justice Project, in partnership with Options for Sexual Health. She regularly acts as an expert consultant with local, national, and international bodies on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SHRH) policies and practices, including UNAIDS, WHO, UNFPA, UNHCR and UNDP.