Dr. Kathleen Deering, PhD, is the Analytic Research Coordinator for the AESHA Project at the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI). Her responsibilities include coordinating data analysis, supervising data management and providing technical, methodological and analytic expertise to the study.
Some of Dr. Deering's distinctions and awards include a Canadian Institute for Health Research Doctoral Research Award (Area of Health Services/Population Health, HIV/AIDS Research) and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Graduate Studentship. She is currently a consultant/investigator on a number of studies involving gender, sex work and HIV in Vancouver and south India within marginalized and vulnerable populations, including women in sex work, migrant populations and men who have sex with men; she also works as a consultant for the Avahan Initiative, a large-scale community-structural HIV prevention intervention based in south India (HIV/AIDS Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation).
