Congratulations to Dr. Germaine Tuyisenge, CGSHE/SFU Post-Doctoral Fellow, for being accepted into the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. 

Dr. Tuyisenge (she/her/hers) will be working on the Evaluating Inequities in Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Sexual Health Access (IRIS) project under the supervision of Dr. Shira Goldenberg.

Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with a customized research management training component. Fellows address complex challenges through an exclusive research management curriculum and a minimum one-year research project with a partner organization in need of high-level expertise. During her fellowship, Dr. Tuyisenge’s work will focus on the experiences and perceptions of im/migrant women on access to HIV & STI services, and im/migration-related structural barriers and facilitators to inequities in navigating and accessing these services.

“In many contexts, im/migrants face poorer sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes than non-migrants, and women, most particularly, are exposed to poorer SHR outcomes compared to their male counterparts. While BC is one of Canada’s top destinations for im/migrants, robust evidence regarding im/migrant women’s access to sexual health screenings (e.g., HIV, sexually transmitted infections) is particularly lacking.” — Dr. Germaine Tuyisenge

More on the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.