Mark Gilbert
Academic Rank(s)
Associate Professor (Partner) MD, MHSc, FRCPC
Applied Public Health Chair
Phone
778-879-2457
mark.gilbert@ubc.ca
Location
Social
655 West 12th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4
Dr. Mark Gilbert is a settler of British descent and a public health physician grateful to be living and working on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Mark received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 2000, and a fellowship in community medicine from UBC in 2005. Over his career Mark has worked as a field epidemiologist and medical health officer, and as a physician epidemiologist leading provincial sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infection surveillance systems in BC and Ontario.
Mark works as a public health physician at the BC Centre for Disease Control where he leads and supports clinical prevention programs and research for marginalized populations facing health inequities and disproportionately affected by conditions including STBBI.
Mark is also the MPH Practicum Director at SPPH.
2024: Tob global winner, UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence Award
2022: CIHR Applied Public Health Research Chair, Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections
2021: Canadian Association of HIV Research/Canadian Foundation for Health Research Excellence in Research Award
2019: James M. Robinson Memorial Award for Significant Contributions to Public Health, University of British Columbia
2018: Red Ribbon Award from AIDS Vancouver, for Outstanding Contribution to the HIV/AIDS Movement
2017: Commitment and Excellence Award for Partner Relations, as a member of the Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS Strategy, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term care
2013: Health Promotion Award, BC Medical Association
- Affiliated Researcher, Community Based Research Centre
- Researcher, UBC Centre for Disease Control
Dr. Gilbert’s current research interests include:
- Improving the equity, appropriateness and sustainability of STBBI testing systems
- Implementation science
- Digital public health
- 2S/LGBTQIA+ health
MPH Practicum (SPPH 508)
Mark regularly takes MPH students for practicums.
Mark may be available to take graduate students, dependent on alignment with his program of research and interests, fit to team, and funding available to support students.
Potential thesis topics:
- Developing self-collection kits for STBBI testing
- Digital public health