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Yasmeen Persad

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Yasmeen Persad

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Healthcare Model Hiv/Aids Cultural Humility Curriculum Development Feminist Intersectionality Integrated Care Interdisciplinary Knowledge Mobilization

Latest papers

Disclosure, comfort, and negative experiences with HIV care providers among transgender women living with HIV in Canada: Findings from a prospective cohort study of women living with HIV in Canada.
Women's health (London, England) · 2025
Operationalizing the Women-Centred HIV Care Model for trans women and persons with transfeminine experience living with and affected by HIV: A qualitative study.
International journal of transgender health · 2025
Protocol of a drug-drug interaction study between bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide and feminizing hormones in trans women living with HIV.
British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2024

All 19 publications

Latest funding

The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$11,000
The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$440,000
Vaccine Outreach Integrating Community Engagement & Science (VOICES): Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Promoting Uptake among Racialized Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$374,314

All 7 grants and awards

19 publications.

Disclosure, comfort, and negative experiences with HIV care providers among transgender women living with HIV in Canada: Findings from a prospective cohort study of women living with HIV in Canada.

Kleiner B, Logie CH, Tellier PP, Chawla S, Lacombe-Duncan A, Persad Y, Skerritt L, Burchell AN, Loutfy M, Kaida A, de Pokomandy A, CHIWOS Research Team

Women's health (London, England)2025

DOI: 10.1177/17455057251406944 PMID: 41408838

Operationalizing the Women-Centred HIV Care Model for trans women and persons with transfeminine experience living with and affected by HIV: A qualitative study.

Iyer H, Underhill A, Persad Y, Lacombe-Duncan A, Kennedy VL, Nation K, Kia H, Logie CH, Kaida A, MacKinnon K, Armstrong I, Bilbao-Joseph C, Tharao W, Loutfy M

International journal of transgender health2025

DOI: 10.1080/26895269.2024.2323508 PMID: 41180914

Protocol of a drug-drug interaction study between bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide and feminizing hormones in trans women living with HIV.

Lacombe-Duncan A, Tseng A, Scarsi KK, Senneker T, Kluger H, Persad Y, Underhill A, Kennedy VL, Armstrong I, Fung R, Bourns A, Nguyen Q, Hranilovic S, Weisdorf T, Chan L, Kia H, Halpenny R, Iyer H, Jeyarajah N, Kovchazov G, Tharao W, Loutfy M

British journal of clinical pharmacology2024

DOI: 10.1111/bcp.16162 PMID: 38992893

Community partnership to optimize engagement in research: Reflections on the trans women HIV research initiative.

Underhill A, Persad Y, Lacombe-Duncan A, Armstrong I, Kia H, Logie CH, Tharao W, Halpenny R, Loutfy M

British journal of clinical pharmacology2024

DOI: 10.1111/bcp.16038 PMID: 38469905

Experiences and resultant care gaps among women with HIV in Canada: concept mapping the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) findings.

Medeiros P, Koebel J, Yu A, Kazemi M, Nicholson V, Frank P, Persad Y, O'Brien N, Bertozzi B, Smith S, Ndung'u M, Fraleigh A, Gagnier B, Cardinal C, Webster K, Sanchez M, Lee M, Lacombe-Duncan A, Logie CH, Gormley R, de Pokomandy A, Kaida A, Loutfy MR

BMJ open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078833 PMID: 38569698

HIV prevalence among a retrospective clinical cohort of transgender women in Canada: Results of the Montreal-Toronto Trans study, collected 2018-2019.

Lacombe-Duncan A, Persad Y, Shokoohi M, Underhill A, Cote P, Wheatley M, Gupta M, Kyne LT, Besharati AA, Chan LL, Hranilovic S, Nguyen Q, Loutfy M

International journal of STD & AIDS2023

DOI: 10.1177/09564624231185818 PMID: 37586721

Oestradiol concentrations in trans women with HIV suppressed on unboosted integrase inhibitor regimens versus trans women without HIV taking oral oestradiol: a pilot study.

Loutfy M, Lacombe-Duncan A, Tseng A, Persad Y, Underhill A, Kennedy VL, Armstrong I, Fung R, Bourns A, Nguyen Q, Hranilovic S, Weisdorf T, Chan LYL, Kia H, Halpenny R, Iyer H, Jeyarajah N, Kovchazov G, McCully J, Scarsi KK

The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2023

DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkad270 PMID: 37681452

Feminizing hormone therapy in a Canadian cohort of transgender women with and without HIV.

Armstrong I, Lacombe-Duncan A, Shokoohi M, Persad Y, Tseng A, Fung R, Underhill A, Côté P, Machouf N, Saucier A, Varriano B, Brundage M, Jones R, Weisdorf T, Goodhew J, MacLeod J, Loutfy M

Antiviral therapy2023

DOI: 10.1177/13596535231182505 PMID: 37289725

Eliciting critical hope in community-based HIV research with transgender women in Toronto, Canada: methodological insights.

Logie CH, Kinitz DJ, Gittings L, Persad Y, Lacombe-Duncan A, Poteat T

Health promotion international2022

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac017 PMID: 35213717

Short report: Characterizing HIV care among a clinical sample of transgender women living with HIV.

Lacombe-Duncan A, Shokoohi M, Persad Y, Underhill A, Machouf N, Côté P, Wheatley M, Gupta M, Kyne LT, Besharati AA, Fung R, Chan LYL, Arbess G, Bourns A, Nguyen Q, Loutfy M

HIV medicine2022

DOI: 10.1111/hiv.13261 PMID: 35193172

The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Other: NWHRI: Coalition - Hubs - Supplement

Principal investigators: Loutfy, Mona R; Bertozzi, Breklyn E; Community Health Centre, Women's Health in Women's Hands; Murray, Melanie C; Nicholson, Valerie; Olaniyan, Folasade Olaniyan E; Ongoiba, Fanta; Persad, Yasmeen; Tharao, Wangari E; Côté, Hélène; Kennedy, V Logan; King, Elizabeth M; Lacombe-Duncan, Ashley; MacKenzie, Lauren J; Massaquoi, Notisha; Sasakamoose, JoLee; Underhill, Angela A; Wudel, Beverly

Keywords: Cultural Humility; Curriculum Development; Feminist Intersectionality; Healthcare Model; Hiv/Aids; Integrated Care; Interdisciplinary; Knowledge Mobilization; Sexual And Reproductive Health; Women

$11,000

The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada

Principal investigatorCIHR2023National Women's Health Res. Init.:Pan-Can. Women's Health Coa. - Hubs

$440,000

Vaccine Outreach Integrating Community Engagement & Science (VOICES): Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Promoting Uptake among Racialized Sexual and Gender Minority Populations

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities - Confidence in science

Principal investigators: Newman, Peter A; Dubey, Vinita; Massaquoi, Notisha

Keywords: Covid-19 Vaccines; Discrete Choice Analysis; Gender-Based Analysis; Integrated Knowledge Translation & Exchange; Lgbt+ People; Medical Mistrust; Mixed Methods; Public Understanding Of Ccience; Racialized Communities; Vaccine Hesitancy

$374,314

Adapting and Operationalizing the Women-centred HIV Care Model for Trans Women Living with HIV in Canada

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research

Principal investigators: Loutfy, Mona R; Nation, Kelendria A; Persad, Yasmeen; Lacombe-Duncan, Ashley

Keywords: Healthcare Model; Hiv/Aids; Integrated Healthcare; Trans Women; Transgender

$40,000

Trans PULSE Canada: A National Study of Transgender Health

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bauer, Greta R; Scheim, Ayden

Keywords: Ethnoracial Inequalities; Gender Diversity; Health Inqualities; Health Services Research; Indigenous Gender-Diverse People; Non-Binary Gender; Sex Work; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Exclusion; Transgender Health

$1,298,801

Transgender women removing healthcare barriers to engagement in the HIV prevention and care cascades: The development and pilot study of Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)

Principal investigatorCIHR2017Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General Stream

Principal investigators: Logie, Carmen; Leblanc, Gabrielle; Persad, Yasmeen

Keywords: Access To Care; Discrimination; Education; Healthcare Providers; Hiv Prevention; Stigma; Training; Transgender

$40,000

The Women and HIV Research Program: Impactful Research with Diverse Women Living with and at Risk of HIV in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Loutfy, Mona R

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Hiv; Indigenous Women'S Health; Knowledge Translation And Exchange; Mentorship; Models Of Women'S Health Care; Reproductive Health; Social Justice; Trans Women'S Health; Women'S Health

$3,780,858

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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Yasmeen Persad

Research

Latest papers

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Disclosure, comfort, and negative experiences with HIV care providers among transgender women living with HIV in Canada: Findings from a prospective cohort study of women living with HIV in Canada.

Operationalizing the Women-Centred HIV Care Model for trans women and persons with transfeminine experience living with and affected by HIV: A qualitative study.

Protocol of a drug-drug interaction study between bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide and feminizing hormones in trans women living with HIV.

Community partnership to optimize engagement in research: Reflections on the trans women HIV research initiative.

Experiences and resultant care gaps among women with HIV in Canada: concept mapping the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) findings.

HIV prevalence among a retrospective clinical cohort of transgender women in Canada: Results of the Montreal-Toronto Trans study, collected 2018-2019.

Oestradiol concentrations in trans women with HIV suppressed on unboosted integrase inhibitor regimens versus trans women without HIV taking oral oestradiol: a pilot study.

Feminizing hormone therapy in a Canadian cohort of transgender women with and without HIV.

Eliciting critical hope in community-based HIV research with transgender women in Toronto, Canada: methodological insights.

Short report: Characterizing HIV care among a clinical sample of transgender women living with HIV.

The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada

The Women-Centred HIV Care Hub: Mobilizing and Scaling-up the Women-Centred HIV Care Model across Canada

Vaccine Outreach Integrating Community Engagement & Science (VOICES): Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Promoting Uptake among Racialized Sexual and Gender Minority Populations

Adapting and Operationalizing the Women-centred HIV Care Model for Trans Women Living with HIV in Canada

Trans PULSE Canada: A National Study of Transgender Health

Transgender women removing healthcare barriers to engagement in the HIV prevention and care cascades: The development and pilot study of Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)

The Women and HIV Research Program: Impactful Research with Diverse Women Living with and at Risk of HIV in Canada

Frequent collaborators

Mona Loutfy

Ashley Lacombe-Duncan

Angela Underhill

Angela Kaida

Alexandra de Pokomandy

Angela Kaida

Wangari Tharao

Wangari Tharao

Alice Tseng

Roula Kteily-Hawa

Roula Kteily-Hawa

Breklyn Bertozzi

Claudette Cardinal

Claudette Cardinal

Kelendria Nation

Kinnon MacKinnon

Valerie Nicholson

Adrian Guta

Amy Yu

Gabrielle Leblanc

Shannon Ryan

Gordon Arbess

Valerie Nicholson