Adrienne K. Chan

Dr. Chan’s areas of expertise include differentiated models of HIV care and treatment delivery in low-resource settings, optimizing management of opportunistic infections in low-resource settings, and the early clinical characterization and evaluation of health systems effects of emerging infectious diseases (Ebola, COVID-19, Mpox). She is cross-appointed to the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, where she has taught on Health Systems Management in International Settings.

For two decades, Dr. Chan has worked in southern Africa with clinical experience in Malawi, Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe, and multiple research collaborations with regional and international networks. In 2007, Dr. Chan joined Dignitas International, a Canadian NGO, as the organization’s HIV Clinic Coordinator in Zomba, Malawi, and later became Medical Coordinator for the Malawi country program and Medical Advisor until 2019. She is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Madiro Foundation, is the Chair of the Board of Partners in Health Canada, and serves on the Board of Trustees for Partners in Health.

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Education

• BSc (Hons), 1996, Immunology and History, University of Toronto, Canada
• MD, 2000, University of Toronto, Canada
• FRCPC, 2004, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, 2006, University of Toronto, Canada
• MPH, 2007, International Health, Knox Memorial Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.

Appointments & Affiliations

• Affiliate Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Integrated Community Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute,
• Staff Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
• Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; Clinical Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (cross-appointment), University of Toronto,