• s.patterson1@lancaster.ac.uk

Areas of interest

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; HIV; Public Health; Women’s Health; Health Inequalities.

Education

• BSc Hons, Zoology, University of Edinburgh
• MBChB, University of Edinburgh
• PhD, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
• MPH, Public Health, University of Liverpool

Biography

Dr. Sophie Patterson is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Lancaster UK, a Public Health Registrar with the National Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV Team in the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Sophie’s academic research is in the field of Public Heath, and areas of interest include women's health and rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV. She has a particular interest in wider determinants of sexual and reproductive health, health inequalities and research focussed on communities typically poorly served by research, policy and practice. She is a mixed methods researcher and strives to incorporate participatory research approaches. Sophie’s research is based both in the UK and internationally. She is a co-investigator of the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) and continues to lead work investigating impacts of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure on the sexual lives of women living with HIV. In the UK, Sophie currently holds a Clinical Lecturer Starter Grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences to investigate uptake of and preferences for remote contraceptive services in England, and implications for health inequalities.