Julian Gitelman (McGill)

Title: Montreal Regional Public Health Department’s Approach to HIV: From Surveillance to Action

Abstract

Situating Montreal regional public health’s actions on STBBIs within the provincial public health practice environment, we will review the epidemiology of HIV in Montreal and the development of an enhanced intervention to respond to the HIV epidemic regionally.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this talk, attendees will be able to:

• Describe the epidemiology of HIV in Montreal in the past ten years

• Describe three elements of the legal, professional, and clinical context in which Montreal regional public health developed the enhanced intervention.

• Name three objectives of the enhanced intervention and the mechanisms through which Montreal regional public health hopes to achieve them.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Gitelman obtained his MD from McGill University, an MPH from Harvard University, and Public Health & Preventive Medicine specialty training from the University of Toronto. He is the lead physician of the Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections team at the Montreal Regional Public Health Department and a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Global and Public Health.