Adrienne Chan

Adrienne Chan trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto, where she served as Chief Medical Resident. She has an MD from the University of Toronto and an MPH (Frank Knox Memorial Fellow) from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her current academic interests link program delivery with implementation research in Africa and focuses on health services research on HIV care and treatment decentralization in southern Africa, integration of TB or NCD care with HIV services, optimization of PMTCT scale up, and innovative task-shifting models in human resources for health. She has a secondary interest in clinical research around the reduction of mortality due to opportunistic infections (specifically TB and cryptococcal meningitis) in HIV patients with severe immunosuppression, and is involved in work characterizing the long term sequelae of Ebola virus disease in West Africa. She holds a cross-appointment to the Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health where she teaches on Health Systems Management in International Settings. From 2007-2019, Dr. Chan worked as the Medical Coordinator and then Medical Advisor for Dignitas International, a Canadian medical humanitarian NGO. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Partners in Health (Canada).