Biography

University of Toronto St. George Campus - Health Science

Scientist at St. Michael's Hospital
Ann
Burchell
Toronto, Canada Area
Ann Burchell is a Scientist with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto.

She holds degrees in epidemiology from the University of Toronto (MSc) and McGill University (PhD) and has academic appointments as Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Adjunct Professor, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University; and Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Medicine, Toronto.

Ann’s research program is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation award (2016-2022). It focuses on the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with an emphasis on primary and secondary prevention. She has extensive methodological experience in the design and implementation of: observational longitudinal studies with primary and secondary data; sexual behavior and health-access questionnaires; natural history studies using laboratory markers of infection; and, most recently, pragmatic randomized trials for HPV prevention and improved screening for syphilis, cervical and anal cancer.