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Abigail Kroch is an Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She works as an epidemiologist researcher focusing on the HIV epidemic in Ontario. Her work supports the analysis and creation of knowledge translation products to plan policies and community clinical programs aimed at reducing HIV transmission and improving the quality of life for people living with HIV. She leads the Ontario HIV Epidemiology Surveillance initiative, collaborating with colleagues to study the cascade of care in Ontario using laboratory data, which helps identify health inequities and leverage points for clinicians to improve outcomes for people at risk of HIV. Additionally, she is the principal investigator of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) Cohort Study (OCS), which supports the collection of individual-level data from over 4000 active participants in clinical care. The data collected is utilized to investigate outcomes for HIV-positive individuals and to identify groups that receive equivalent access to services crucial for their clinical care. Abigail promotes a health equity perspective in her analysis of HIV data, with a particular focus on stigma and socio-economic disadvantages faced by those at risk of HIV.
Department of Sociology