{"id":4346,"date":"2026-03-02T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:20:41","slug":"alexander-mcclelland-will-lead-community-based-hiv-stbbi-public-health-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/2026\/alexander-mcclelland-will-lead-community-based-hiv-stbbi-public-health-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McClelland Will Lead Community-Based HIV\/STBBI Public Health Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Alexander McClelland Will Lead Community-Based HIV\/STBBI Public Health Observatory \n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexander&nbsp;McClelland, professor in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice,&nbsp;has received&nbsp;a Team Grant&nbsp;worth $982,541&nbsp;from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to create a national network of&nbsp;partners&nbsp;\u201cto strengthen Canada\u2019s response to HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs).\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The observatory&nbsp;will&nbsp;work directly with groups&nbsp;representing&nbsp;sex workers, migrants, people who use drugs, and those living with HIV, along with researchers, legal experts, and public health practitioners.&nbsp;The overall team is led by community organizations including the HIV Legal Network, Butterfly: Asian Migrant Sex Worker Network, Community Alliance for Accessible Treatment, HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario &#8211; HALCO, Maggie&#8217;s Toronto Sex Worker Action Project, Stella,&nbsp;l\u2019amie&nbsp;de&nbsp;Maimie, and the Oasis Program at Ottawa\u2019s Somerset West Community Health Center, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur Observatory draws together academic expertise with the expertise of lived experience,\u201d&nbsp;wrote&nbsp;McClelland. \u201cThe justification for this work is clear. Public health surveillance plays a critical role in preventing HIV and STBBI&nbsp;transmission,&nbsp;yet trust in these systems is fragile. Concerns about consent, privacy, and data use persist, particularly among marginalized communities who face structural inequities, stigma, and criminalization.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key outcomes for the project include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improving health equity by building trust and collaboration between marginalized groups and public health.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strengthening relationships between public health and communities through ongoing dialogue and shared decision-making.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanding knowledge so communities can more confidently navigate and influence public health policy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander&nbsp;McClelland, professor in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice,&nbsp;has received&nbsp;a Team Grant&nbsp;worth $982,541&nbsp;from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to create a national network of&nbsp;partners&nbsp;\u201cto strengthen Canada\u2019s response to HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs).\u201d&nbsp; The observatory&nbsp;will&nbsp;work directly with groups&nbsp;representing&nbsp;sex workers, migrants, people who use drugs, and those living with HIV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-criminology-and-criminal-justice"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}