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Annalee Yassi
Annalee Yassi
Professor, Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair In Global Health And Capacity-Building MSc, MD, FRCPC
604–822–8952
annalee.yassi@ubc.ca
137-2206 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
About
Dr. Annalee Yassi, a Professor in SPPH, is a former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building.
As a medical specialist in both Public Health and Preventive Medicine as well as Occupational Medicine, a large part of Dr. Yassi’s research focuses on collaborative roles in occupational health and infection control in the healthcare workplace. Dr. Yassi is leading CIHR-funded projects in Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe) as well as in Ecuador. She also is working on a major interdisciplinary project to reduce tuberculosis and other occupational lung diseases in South Africa’s mining sector.
Dr. Yassi is particularly interested in issues and methods in community-based health research, transdisciplinarity and North-South partnerships. Additional areas of special interest include the ethics of global health research, linking environmental/ecosystem threats and the social determination of health, and the use of arts-based research methods as well as arts-infused social justice and community-based health interventions
Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building
- Collaborative roles in occupational health and infection control in the healthcare workplace, protecting workers from blood-borne and airborne exposures (including HIV and TB), and the link between worker health and the quality and safety of patient care
- Occupational health in the healthcare workforce
- Community-university partnerships, issues and methods in community-based health research, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and north-south partnerships
- Linking clinical care and the social and environmental determinants of health, an ecosystem approach to health
- Latin America, South Africa, and global health generally