Amaya Perez-Brumer

Dr. Amaya Perez-Brumer is a Latinx critical global health scholar, Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Science at the University of Toronto, and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Research Chair in Global Health Intervention Justice (2022-2027). She is a faculty fellow at the Center for Critical Qualitative Health Research and affiliated faculty (status-only) at Women & Gender Studies Institute and Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University (2019) and hold an MSc in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2013).

Her scholarship integrates social science theory with innovative mixed methodological approaches to improve HIV prevention intervention implementation and acceptability among people of diverse genders and sexualities globally. She has published two edited books and 75 peer-reviewed articles and is currently the Principal Investigator of a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Award and a SSHRC Partnership Engage Award developing justice-informed global health strategies for gender and sexual minority communities in Peru. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Global Public Health holds a secondary academic affiliation with the AIDS Clinical Trials Network (ACTG) on A5403 “Giving standardized estradiol therapy in transgender women to research interactions with HIV therapy: the GET IT RIgHT Study”. She is also an early career Bridge Fellow on the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) protocol 094, “INTEGRA: A Vanguard Study of Integrated Strategies for Linking Persons with Opioid Use Disorder to Care and Prevention for Addiction, HIV, HCV and Primary Care”.

Media: Twitter @amayapb
Contact: aperezbrumer@utoronto.ca