Research Project (2024–2026): Eng/aging and HIV: Community-led administrative health data research on recurrent cardiovascular events among older adults living with HIV
Dr. Kathleen Inglis is a social scientist and community-based researcher who has spent over ten years studying HIV in British Columbia and Ghana. She obtained a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Simon Fraser University, an MA in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and is a member of the CTN+ Viiv Fellowship. Prior to her appointment as a postdoctoral fellow with the CTN+, Dr. Inglis was a postdoctoral fellow at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Worthington.
During her time at the CTN+, Dr. Inglis will work under the continued supervision of Dr. Worthington on a project titled ‘Eng/aging and HIV: Community-led administrative health data research on recurrent cardiovascular events among older adults living with HIV.’ She will engage in an innovative, community-led administrative data HIV research collaboration, involving People Living with HIV (PLHIV), epidemiologists, HIV clinicians, data scientists, and social scientists. Historically, active participation by PLHIV has been pivotal to HIV research; however, administrative health data research has largely circumscribed PLHIV participation. As administrative data research becomes more prominent in the field of HIV, there is a need to develop new ways to engage people with lived/living experience in this form of research.
The collaborative project entails two integrated elements. Firstly, the team will utilise administrative health data from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Comparative Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) study — one of the world’s largest and most robust longitudinal datasets of People Living with HIV — to study health outcomes of index and recurrent cardiovascular (CVD) events among People Living with HIV compared to people living without HIV in BC. There is a lack of research about recurrence of CVD events for PLHIV, particularly in a Canadian context. Secondly, the team will build a framework to support researchers to authentically engage community members in administrative data research projects.
Dr. Inglis has been the recipient of multiple honours and awards, including the CIHR Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Development Research Center Doctoral Award, and SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship. She has been the recipient of several research grants as PI and co-PI, including the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, Michael Smith Health Research BC Convening and Collaborating grant, and Vancouver Foundation Convene grant.
