The Network’s Vision
Despite tremendous progress in the treatment and prevention of HIV and STBBIs, important disparities across regions and populations remain in Canada. There are also many opportunities to develop new technologies, models of care, and curative therapies.
CTN+ builds upon the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) originally established in 1990 as a cornerstone of the federal AIDS strategy, and now encompasses all STBBIs. With four Scientific Think Tanks and five Regional Teams, our Network facilitates and supports high-quality, investigator-driven clinical trials and innovative non-interventional research in a range of clinical areas.
Focus on Regional Priorities
The CTN+ prioritizes the growth of regional research capacity by fostering, developing, and supporting research teams across Canada. These regional teams, which include researchers, community members, and Indigenous representation, champion the knowledge needs of those in their local communities, with a focus on capacity building, engagement, upholding Indigenous rights, and recognizing the power of research and knowledge mobilization to improve health equity across the country.
Once informed by regional teams, local partners, and people with lived and living experiences, these projects are then facilitated by our Scientific Think Tanks, who provide scientific and methodologic support to CTN+ projects. From idea development to sharing results, our Community-Centred Knowledge Hub works with researchers, communities, and knowledge users to ensure CTN+ research answers the right questions, in the right way, for the greatest possible impact.
Regional Teams
Each Regional Team is made up of researchers, clinicians, Indigenous team members, and people with lived experience. Their expertise informs the Network’s research priorities, special initiatives, and knowledge translation efforts.
Scientific Think Tanks
Our Think Tanks act as science accelerators, facilitating innovative pan-Canadian trials informed by our regional teams and people with lived and living experiences, ensuring they are well-designed, address priority research questions, are inclusive of diverse participants, and have adequate statistical power to produce actionable evidence.
Introduction to Our Think Tanks
Each Think Tank is composed of scientists, clinicians, and community members whose collective experience in their area of expertise helps guide the Network.
Prevention & Testing
This Think Tank develops and evaluates biomedical and psychosocial interventions and novel implementation strategies to test for and prevent STBBIs, including HIV.
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Treatment & Management
The research led by this Think Tank aims to optimize treatment strategies for people living and aging with HIV and STBBIs to promote long-term engagement in care, reduce comorbidities, and improve quality of life.
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Cure & Immunotherapies
This Think Tank develops and tests targeted immunotherapies and therapeutic vaccines to decrease viral reservoirs and find cures for HIV and hepatitis B, and vaccines for syphilis, HPV, and hepatitis C.
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Methods
The Methods Think Tank advances innovative methods to ensure CTN+ studies are well designed, address priority questions, and have adequate statistical power to produce actionable evidence, and that successful models of care can be scaled up in real-world settings.
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Our Committees
CTN+ committees meet to review studies, monitor trials in progress and help set priorities. This ensures that all trials maintain the highest scientific and ethical standards while addressing the needs of local communities and meaningfully advance commitments towards Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
Our Collaborators
The CTN+ is supported by CIHR and administratively coordinated at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The strength of the Network comes from partnerships and engagement with diverse people with lived and living experiences, communities, clinicians, research scientists, and organizations across Canada.
Knowledge Mobilization Hub
The CTN+ Community-Centred Knowledge Mobilization Hub promotes and facilitates community engagement, creates knowledge tools related to CTN+ studies, shares research findings to a broad array of stakeholders and audiences, and evaluates the Network’s impact within, and across, communities.
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Interested in joining our team? Here are the current career opportunities with the CTN+ and our collaborators. For Fellowship opportunities, please visit our Postdoctoral Fellowship program page.