Affiliate Assistant Professor, Division of Social Medicine
Dr. Shira Goldenberg, PhD is a social epidemiologist and mixed-methods researcher whose research focuses on health equity, social justice, and the social and structural determinants of health among marginalized communities. Her research aims to understand and develop strategies to address the social and structural factors underpinning health inequities among immigrants, refugees, and criminalized women, with a focus on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, substance use, mental health, and primary care outcomes.
Dr. Goldenberg is PI of several ongoing studies addressing health inequities faced by marginalized women and im/migrant communities, with a focus on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and substance use outcomes. She is PI of an ongoing NIDA-funded community-based cohort study examining the impacts of structural and system-level interventions on HIV/STI, overdose, and related health and social inequities among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada, known as An Evaluation of Sex Worker’s Health Access (AESHA). Dr. Goldenberg is founding PI of the IRIS Project addressing im/migrant women’s access to sexual and reproductive health care and COVID-19 care in BC, as well as the Maternal and Infant Health among Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women (MIHRA) study at the Mexico-U.S. border.
Dr. Goldenberg has been invited to contribute to global and national policy initiatives and clinical guidelines pertaining to HIV and sexual health care for marginalized communities, including the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90 HIV Targets for Key Populations, and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) Guidelines on Optimizing HIV Care (Key Populations).