Annalee Yassi
Academic Rank(s)
Professor, Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair In Global Health And Capacity-Building MSc, MD, FRCPC
Phone
604–822–8952
annalee.yassi@ubc.ca
Location
432-2206 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
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
National Director, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network
Interim Director, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Senior Scientist, Arthritis Research Canada
Centre Director, Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes
- 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