Kathleen Deering
PhD
UBC Division of Social Medicine
UBC Rank: Assistant Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Deering hopes that by drawing on community-engaged research, anti-oppression and trauma-informed principles, her research will further an understanding of gendered social and structural violence and how structural, policy and community interventions can address health and social inequities.
- Epidemiology
- Community-engaged research
- Methodological issues in sexual health equity research
- Gender-based violence
- Stigma and discrimination
- Social and structural determinants of health and health services access inequities
Affiliations & Awards
- Associate Member, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Population and Public Health
- Associate Member, Women’s Research Health Institute, BC Women’s Hospital
- Canadian HIV Trials Network Investigator
- Program Faculty, Department of Experimental Medicine
- Faculty Member, Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award (2020)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award (2014)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Bisby Award (2011)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2011)
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Fellowship (2011)
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