AJ Rich
Research Scientist
AJ Rich
Research Scientist
Areas of interest
Health Equity; Social Epidemiology; Sexual Health; Chronic Disease; Big Data
Education
- PhD, Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
- MPH, Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
- BA, Anthropology, Smith College
Biography
AJ Rich (she/they) is a social epidemiologist who holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia School of Public Health and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Medicine as well as the Duke University School of Nursing. Their research centers on community engaged approaches to sexual and gender minority health equity, with expertise in methods and measurement, and a substantive focus on HIV and other sexual and chronic health conditions. AJ is currently a Research Scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control as well as Adjunct Faculty in the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Health Sciences.
Research Interests
- Key population health disparities
- Sexual and gender minority health
- Methods & Measurement
- Community based research
- HIV and other chronic disease
- Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections
- Big Data
- Public health surveillance
- Social epidemiology
- Minority Stress
- Intersectionality
Teaching Interests
- Epidemiology
- Health Research Methods
- Mixed Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- Population health disparities
- Intersectionality
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
Publications
View Dr. Rich's publications here.
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