Martin Schechter

Professor OBC, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC, FCAHS

Chief Scientific Officer, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Co-Director, Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health

Tier I Canada Research Chair, HIV/AIDS and Urban Population Health

Martin Schechter is Professor in and was the Founding Director of the School of Population and Public Health at the UBC.

He was trained in mathematics (PhD), medicine (MD) and epidemiology (MSc), and combines interests in clinical epidemiology/clinical trials and with HIV and addiction research. Dr. Schechter now serves as Chief Scientific Officer of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and as Co-Director of the UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health.

– 390+ peer-reviewed publications
– $102 million in grants as PI including a $7.275m CIHR Foundation Grant in 2016
– Order of British Columbia
– tier I Canada Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Population Health
– Science Council of British Columbia Gold Medal
– U.S. Norman E. Zinberg Award for Achievement in Medicine
– George Elliot Award for Lifetime Contributions to Public Health in BC
– Royal Society of Canada
– Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Below are articles related to his research.

• Young Indigenous people who use drugs in BC 13 times more likely to die than young Canadians
• SPPH Faculty awarded six CIHR Project Grants, one Bridge Award