Shohan Illsley, University of Manitoba

Research

Diverse And Inclusive Training Hiv Key Populations Mentoring Platforms People With Lived And Living Experience Sexually Transmitted Infections

Latest papers

What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project.
Harm reduction journal · 2017

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Strengthened Prairies Integrated Knowledge Exchange (SPIKE) Hub: Enhancing Community Responsive and Peer Integrated Clinical Trials
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$800,000
Community-Led Structural Interventions to Improve HIV/STBBI Outcomes and Dismantle Structural Racism and Colonialism affecting Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Communities in Manitoba
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$125,000
HIV/STBBI Testing and The Health of African and Caribbean Migrant Communities in Manitoba
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$417,000

All 3 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project.

Jalloh C, Illsley S, Wylie J, Migliardi P, West E, Stewart D, Mignone J

Harm reduction journal2017

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-017-0199-1 PMID: 29145882

Strengthened Prairies Integrated Knowledge Exchange (SPIKE) Hub: Enhancing Community Responsive and Peer Integrated Clinical Trials

Principal investigatorCIHR2025HIV/AIDS & STBBI Clinical Trials Research Network - Phase 2

Principal investigators: Keynan, Yoav; Haworth-Brockman, Margaret J; Illsley, Shohan; Singh, Ameeta E; Sutherland, Dessie Jo; Kelly, Lauren; Rueda, Zulma V; Spence, Cara J

Keywords: Diverse And Inclusive Training; Hiv; Key Populations; Mentoring Platforms; People With Lived And Living Experience; Sexually Transmitted Infections

$800,000

Community-Led Structural Interventions to Improve HIV/STBBI Outcomes and Dismantle Structural Racism and Colonialism affecting Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Communities in Manitoba

Co-investigatorCIHR2024CG: Moving Upstream - Structural Det. of Health - Health in HIV/AIDS and STBBI

Principal investigators: Souleymanov, Roustam; McLeod, Albert; Akinyele-Akanbi, Bolaji F; King, Alexandra

Keywords: Black, African, Caribbean People; First Nations, Inuit, And Métis People; Health Services An Policy; Hiv/Aids; Sexually Transmitted And Blood Borne Infections; Social And Health Institutions; Structural Determinants Of Hiv/Stbbi; Structural Interventions In Hiv/Stbbi; Structural Racism; Systemic Colonialism

$125,000

HIV/STBBI Testing and The Health of African and Caribbean Migrant Communities in Manitoba

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

Principal investigators: Souleymanov, Roustam; Caron, Leigh A; Daniel, Simret O; Iervolino, Ana; Lorway, Robert R

Keywords: African, Caribbean, Black People; Dried Blood Spot; Hiv; Hiv/Stbbi Testing; Immigrants And Refugees; Implementation Science; Manitoba; Newcomers; Stbbi; Survey

$417,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Paula Migliardi

Women's and Gender Studies

1 shared papers, latest 2017

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Diverse And Inclusive Training Dear Professor Illsley, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project." (2017), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Strengthened Prairies Integrated Knowledge Exchange (SPIKE) Hub: Enhancing Community Responsive and Peer Integrated Clinical Trials" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]