Shira Goldenberg
Dr. Shira Goldenberg is a post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI) of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in the Department of Medicine at UBC. She is a global health researcher who has been conducting qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research on social and structural factors shaping HIV/STI risk among mobile, vulnerable populations since 2006.
Dr. Goldenberg is a CIHR- and MSFHR-funded post-doctoral fellow with GSHI and University of California San Diego. Her current research aims to explore the gendered health impacts of migration, mobility, and youth sex work among female sex workers in Canada and Latin America.
Affiliation
- University: University of British Columbia
- Faculty: Medicine
- Department: Medicine
- Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Awards
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Preventing and Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 Among Im/migrants in British Columbia: Rapid Mixed-Methods Data to Inform Policy and Programmes.
Year 2020
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The socio-cultural and structural context of mobility, migration and HIV/STI risk: A mixed methods study among female sex workers in Vancouver, BC
Year 2013
Type Trainee Award
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Investigating Socio-Cultural and Structural Forces Affecting Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing and Treatment Among Youth in Northeastern BC
Year 2006
Type Trainee Award