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Peter Cornelisse won the New Investigators Award from the Canadian Association for HIV Research for his poster presentation "A comparison of risk factors for HIV transmission between two cohorts of gay men (1982/84 vs. 1995)" presented at the XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver in July 1996.

Dr. Steffanie Strathdee won the Young Investigators Award in Epidemiology from the XI International conference on AIDS for her presentation "Social determinants predict needle sharing behaviour among injection drug users in Vancouver."

Dr. Strathdee has been named a National Health Scholar for the five-year period beginning September 1997. This prestigious award is granted by the National Health Research and Development Program, Health Canada. Her research projects will focus on determinants of HIV incidence and risk behaviours among propsective studies of young men having sex with men and injection drug users in Vancouver.

Dr. Strathdee was named one of the "100 Canadians to Watch" by Maclean's Magazine in their Canada Day 1997 issue.

Dr. Strathdee was also named one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by the Financial Post Magazine, in their April 1998 issue.