Summit Program - GMSH | Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance
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Biography<br />
Alan Li<br />
Regent Park Community <strong>Health</strong> Centre<br />
Alan Li is a primary care physician at Regent Park Community <strong>Health</strong> Centre<br />
that service many diverse and marginalized communities including immigrants<br />
and refugees, homeless populations, people without OHIP, and people living<br />
in poverty and people with HIV/AIDS. Alan is the founding co-chair of the<br />
“Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment” (CAAT), a coalition group of many<br />
health and community service providers working to eliminate treatment access<br />
barriers for people with HIV/AIDS with precarious migration status in Canada.<br />
Throughout his over 30 years of activism, Alan has led many social justice and<br />
community empowerment initiatives including being the national president of the<br />
Chinese Canadian National Council, co-founded Asian Community AIDS Services,<br />
the Ethno-racial Treatment Support Network, and helped established many training<br />
programs including the Legacy mentorship project for people living with HIV/AIDS.<br />
Since 2001 Alan has led a number of community based action research studies<br />
on issues affecting immigrant, refugee and non-status PHA and culturally diverse<br />
communities in Canada. Currently Alan is an OHTN (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)<br />
Community Scholar Award recipient and the lead investigator in the CIHR funded<br />
Research study: Community HIV Champion Advocate Mobilization Project (CHAMP).<br />
Ambrose Kirby<br />
AMBROSE KIRBY is a community activist, educator and psychotherapist.He is a<br />
<strong>Program</strong> Coordinator with Supporting Our Youth (SOY) at Sherbourne <strong>Health</strong><br />
Centre, where he co-facilitates Trans Fusion Crew (TFC) and the Living Trans Pride<br />
project, weekly arts-based drop-in groups for trans, gender-queer and questioning<br />
youth aged 16-29.Ambrose has worked as a grassroots and non-profit community<br />
organizer for the past 15 years and as a group facilitator and anti-oppression<br />
trainer for over 8 years.His facilitation practice aims to nurture the development<br />
of shamelessness and group cohesion through a radical attention to the everyday<br />
effects of sociopolitical power structures on interpersonal relationships.<br />
Amy Herrick<br />
University of Pittsburgh<br />
Amy Herrick has worked with the LGBT youth population for nearly 20 years<br />
beginning as an outreach worker and peer advocate. Dr. Herrick has also worked<br />
clinically with HIV+ and at risk LGBT youth at Howard Brown <strong>Health</strong> Center - the<br />
Midwest’s largest community based health center with a mission to serve the LGBT<br />
population. As a result of her experiences working with this community, and being a<br />
constant witness to their strength and courage, Dr. Herrick had focused her research<br />
on understanding the process by which marginalized individuals, specifically young<br />
MSM, develop and employ resiliencies. Dr. Herrick is currently a post-doctoral fellow<br />
in the department of Behavioral and Community <strong>Health</strong> Sciences at the University of<br />
Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public <strong>Health</strong>. Her other research interests focus on<br />
the health disparities among sexual minority youth.
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