Shari Margolese, University of Ottawa

Research

African/Caribbean/Black Hiv Indigenous Men Who Have Sex With Men People Who Use Drugs Transgender Wellness Women

Latest funding

Empowering Large-Scale Infectious Disease Research and Mobilizing Knowledge: The Serology and Diagnostics High-Throughput Platform as Critical Research Infrastructure for Pandemic Preparedness, Surveillance, and Response in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$2,999,998
"CAN LhIVE WELL": The Canadian HIV Wellness Research Initiative
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$20,000

Empowering Large-Scale Infectious Disease Research and Mobilizing Knowledge: The Serology and Diagnostics High-Throughput Platform as Critical Research Infrastructure for Pandemic Preparedness, Surveillance, and Response in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Operating Grant: Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding - General

Principal investigators: Langlois, Marc-Andre

Keywords: Antibodies; Clinical Trials For Vaccines; Elisa; Emerging Infectious Diseases; High Throughput Automation; Knowledge Mobilization; Molecular Diagnostics; Pandemic Preparedness; Qpcr; Sero-Surveillance (Population-Level)

$2,999,998

"CAN LhIVE WELL": The Canadian HIV Wellness Research Initiative

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Brophy, Jason C; Habanyama, Muluba; Margolese, Shari L; Nicholson, Valerie

Keywords: African/Caribbean/Black; Hiv; Indigenous; Men Who Have Sex With Men; People Who Use Drugs; Transgender; Wellness; Women; Youth

$20,000

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

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: African/Caribbean/Black Dear Professor Margolese, 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]. Your research on african/caribbean/black 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 ""CAN LhIVE WELL": The Canadian HIV Wellness Research Initiative" (2019), 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]