Monika Kowatsch

Dr. Monika Kowatsch is pursuing her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests developed during her PhD at the University of Manitoba and are two-fold. First, to work hand in hand with community partners to improve patient care and outcomes, and second, to utilize “big data” approaches to understand the relationships between the immune system, social-demographics, and health outcomes. Dr. Kowatsch’s current research focuses on how HIV and hormones affect healthy aging in women living with HIV as a part of the British Columbia CARMA-CHIWOS Collaboration (BCC3), a cohort study of women living with and without HIV that takes a holistic cell-to-society approach to address questions on healthy aging.