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Rolando Barrios

ResearcherUniversity of British Columbia

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Rolando Barrios

Researcher

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
48 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 12 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2023.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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110

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Research

Addiction Clinical Trial Knowledge Translation Substance Abuse Substance Misuse

Latest papers

Successful Scale-up of Syphilis Testing Linked to Routine HIV Viral Load Monitoring in British Columbia
Open Forum Infectious Diseases · 2026
Healthcare Provider Strategies and Approaches to Supporting People Living With HIV Who Are Experiencing HIV Treatment Disengagement in British Columbia, Canada.
Qualitative health research · 2026
Individual characteristics and time-updated factors associated with antiretroviral treatment interruptions among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.
HIV medicine · 2026

All 110 publications

Latest funding

Persistent Low-Level HIV Viremia During Antiretroviral Therapy: Origins and Clinical Consequences
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,147,500
EnGendering community-led research at the intersection of HIV and the substance poisoning crisis: Developing a framework for collaborative administrative data research
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$677,025
Innovation in health services in response to a rapidly changing illicit drug toxicity crisis in BC: Investigating the role of supervised inhalation sites and novel harm reduction interventions
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$1,021,276

All 26 grants and awards

110 publications.

Successful Scale-up of Syphilis Testing Linked to Routine HIV Viral Load Monitoring in British Columbia

Thompson KA, Clifford-Rashotte M, Zhang W, Kao D, Trigg J, Toy J, Guillemi S, Lima V, Barrios R, Montaner J

Open Forum Infectious Diseases2026

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofag269

Healthcare Provider Strategies and Approaches to Supporting People Living With HIV Who Are Experiencing HIV Treatment Disengagement in British Columbia, Canada.

Pakhomova TE, Parry R, Wesseling T, Moore DM, Cardinal C, Dawydiuk N, Nicholson V, Tam C, Parashar S, Hogg R, Barrios R, Montaner JSG, Salters K

Qualitative health research2026

DOI: 10.1177/10497323251318218 PMID: 40170323

Individual characteristics and time-updated factors associated with antiretroviral treatment interruptions among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

Foncham J, Azarmju F, Shen T, Salters K, Trigg J, Barrios R, Hogg RS, Moher M, Selfridge M, Kling R, Arora K, Wesseling T, Changir AM, Montaner JSG, Moore DM

HIV medicine2026

DOI: 10.1111/hiv.70188 PMID: 41494683

Beyond direct-acting antiviral therapy: Characterizing mental health conditions and depressive symptoms among patients recently treated for hepatitis C.

Kelly SE, Ajidahun A, Bytelaar S, Ding E, Fulton C, Harris M, Sykes G, Ly J, Barrios R, Hull MW, Montaner JSG, Salters K

PloS one2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0344862 PMID: 41843562

Psychosocial and structural factors and changes in quality of life measures among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

Clark J, Shen T, Weir L, Salters K, Trigg J, Foncham J, Barrios R, Wesseling T, Marante Changir A, Moore DM

AIDS care2026

DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2026.2633288 PMID: 41742799

Heterogeneous impacts of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on drug resistance and phylogenetic cluster transmission dynamics in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort and simulation study.

McLaughlin A, Toy J, Montoya V, Sereda P, Trigg J, Hull M, Brumme CJ, Barrios R, Montaner JSG, Joy JB

PLoS medicine2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004827 PMID: 41364728

Evaluation of a Pilot mHealth Intervention to Engage Primary Care Clients at an Urban Clinic Serving Marginalized Populations: Mixed-Methods Cohort Study.

Harrison L, Fulton C, Marante Changir A, Ajidahun A, Tam C, Zhang W, Shen T, Barrios R, Montaner J, Salters K, Lester RT, Parashar S, Moore DM

JMIR mHealth and uHealth2025

DOI: 10.2196/68561 PMID: 41313145

Unsuppressed HIV viral load among people living with HIV by exposure category in British Columbia, Canada from 2005 to 2020: a population-based cohort study.

Yeong SK, Ye M, Barrios R, Hull M, Li J, Sereda P, Charoenpanon T, Lima VD, Bobrow K, Hayden A, Kling R, Wang X, Lachowsky N, Montaner J, Moore DM

BMC global and public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s44263-025-00209-y PMID: 41068975

Rapid intravenous symptom-inhibiting fentanyl induction (SIFI) to optimize rotation onto oral opioid agonist therapy among individuals who use unregulated fentanyl: protocol for an open-label, single arm clinical trial.

Azar P, Ignaszewski MJ, Harris M, Barazanci Z, Davison R, Wong JSH, Maharaj A, Mathew N, Hall D, Guillemi SA, Foreman J, Barrios R, Montaner JSG

Addiction science & clinical practice2025

DOI: 10.1186/s13722-025-00586-7 PMID: 40731024

Impacts of overdose and socio-structural factors on recent mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

Tam C, Zhang W, Moore D, Salters K, Trigg J, Wesseling T, Parashar S, McLinden T, Sereda P, McDougall P, Moher M, Montaner JSG, Hogg R, Barrios R

AIDS (London, England)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000004158 PMID: 39992124

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Rolando Barrios

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Latest papers

Latest funding

Successful Scale-up of Syphilis Testing Linked to Routine HIV Viral Load Monitoring in British Columbia

Healthcare Provider Strategies and Approaches to Supporting People Living With HIV Who Are Experiencing HIV Treatment Disengagement in British Columbia, Canada.

Individual characteristics and time-updated factors associated with antiretroviral treatment interruptions among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

Beyond direct-acting antiviral therapy: Characterizing mental health conditions and depressive symptoms among patients recently treated for hepatitis C.

Psychosocial and structural factors and changes in quality of life measures among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

Heterogeneous impacts of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on drug resistance and phylogenetic cluster transmission dynamics in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort and simulation study.

Evaluation of a Pilot mHealth Intervention to Engage Primary Care Clients at an Urban Clinic Serving Marginalized Populations: Mixed-Methods Cohort Study.

Unsuppressed HIV viral load among people living with HIV by exposure category in British Columbia, Canada from 2005 to 2020: a population-based cohort study.

Rapid intravenous symptom-inhibiting fentanyl induction (SIFI) to optimize rotation onto oral opioid agonist therapy among individuals who use unregulated fentanyl: protocol for an open-label, single arm clinical trial.

Impacts of overdose and socio-structural factors on recent mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.

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