Mona Loutfy

Dr. Mona Loutfy is clinician scientist at Women’s College Hospital and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She serves as the Director of the Women and HIV Research Program, which she founded in 2007 at the Women’s College Research Institute. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, stigma, and access to care of women with HIV. With funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Dr. Loutfy works to break down HIV-related stigma through the Canadian Women’s HIV Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort and the Interdisciplinary HIV Pregnancy Research Group. Dr. Loutfy and her team employ advocacy and community outreach to educate health-care workers, policy makers and communities so that people with HIV can plan healthy families. She is also a Lead Researcher for the Prevention and Vulnerable Populations Core at the Canadian HIV Trials Network. Dr. Loutfy’s clinical practice is at the Maple Leaf Medical Clinic (MLMC), which cares for over 2,700 HIV-positive patients in inner city Toronto. Dr. Loutfy also dedicates her time to working with rural, remote and underserved women living with HIV in Saskatchewan.