Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada

Jean Shoveller, PhD, is a professor at University of British Columbia’s (UBC) School of Population and Public Health and program director at the Epidemiology and Population Health and Drug Treatment Program, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. She established the UBC Youth Sexual Health Team in 2005 to focus on sexual and reproductive health outcomes among young people. She has served as principal investigator on more than 20 studies, published 120+ peer-reviewed manuscripts, and supervised the training of 60+ graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. She is widely recognized for her contributions to HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention and linkage to care. In 2015, Prof. Shoveller was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and honored as an “outstanding public health scholar whose leadership and vision has contributed to system change nationally and internationally.”