Assistant Professor, School of Health Studies
Dr. Lesley Gittings is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Studies at Western University.
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Professor Lesley Gittings is a community-engaged health equity researcher with an interest in the social and structural factors that shape health across the life course. Her research focuses on: (1) social determinants of HIV and sexual and reproductive health; and (2) participatory and art-based approaches for youth empowerment and well-being. She engages culturally grounded, strengths-based approaches rooted in social justice.
She is currently an investigator on studies in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and Canada, with youth populations facing social, structural and environmental barriers to health equity. These include: adolescents living with HIV in South Africa, climate change affected adolescents in Kenya, refugee youth in Uganda; Indigenous and Northern young people in the Northwest Territories and youth experiencing homelessness in Toronto.
Professor Gittings is a research associate at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral research focused on the biosocial lives of adolescent boys and young men with perinatally-acquired HIV. She has worked in the HIV and health sectors in Canada, Southern and Eastern Africa for 15 years.
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About Lesley Gittings
Dr. Lesley Gittings is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Studies at Western University.
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Health Collaborators:
Professor Lesley Gittings is a community-engaged health equity researcher with an interest in the social and structural factors that shape health across the life course. Her research focuses on: (1) social determinants of HIV and sexual and reproductive health; and (2) participatory and art-based approaches for youth empowerment and well-being. She engages culturally grounded, strengths-based approaches rooted in social justice.
She is currently an investigator on studies in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and Canada, with youth populations facing social, structural and environmental barriers to health equity. These include: adolescents living with HIV in South Africa, climate change affected adolescents in Kenya, refugee youth in Uganda; Indigenous and Northern young people in the Northwest Territories and youth experiencing homelessness in Toronto.
Professor Gittings is a research associate at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral research focused on the biosocial lives of adolescent boys and young men with perinatally-acquired HIV. She has worked in the HIV and health sectors in Canada, Southern and Eastern Africa for 15 years.
