farzaneh.vakili@umontreal.ca
CRCHUM
Epidemiology, HCV, unstable housing, people who inject drugs, gender-specific differences

 

 

 

Farzaneh Vakili is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Sciences in the Département de Médicine Familiale et Médecine d’Urgence at the Université de Montréal. She studies under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Larney and Dr. Julie Bruneau at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CrCHUM). Farzaneh has a MSc in Midwifery from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. She has seven years of research experience, including four years working on health among women living with HIV/AIDS. Farzaneh's current research aims to investigate the associations between gender, unstable housing, and hepatitis C in people who inject drugs through an epidemiological and biostatistical approach.