Dr. Viviane Dias Lima

Viviane Dias Lima joined the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in 2006.  She works closely with Dr. Julio Montaner, Dr. Richard Harrigan, and Dr. Robert Hogg. She also has several ongoing collaborations with researchers across Canada, the US, Australia and Europe. She also supervises and guides a group of statisticians and data analysts.

By combining statistical, mathematical and epidemiological methods, her area of research focus on the investigation of innovative prevention strategies to the transmission of HIV, and innovative intervention strategies to avert HIV/AIDS disease progression.

In 2007, she joined the modeling group at the Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS) centre at the Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Viviane Dias Lima is a recipient of two research fellowships by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to identify and assess the effectiveness of competing treatment-management interventions to improve adherence over a person’s treatment history in order to prevent or reduce disease progression.