Eric Mykhalovsky

I am a full professor and director of the graduate program in sociology at York University. I’ve been involved in the HIV response since the late 1990s as an activist, researcher and, in the early years of the epidemic, as a community worker. I have served on the board of directors of CATIE, the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic (Ontario), and the Canadian HIV//AIDS Legal Network. I’ve been on the steering committee of AIDS ACTION NOW! since 2008. I was a founding member of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and I’m a member of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization. Over the years I’ve tried to use my position in the university as a researcher to advance the political and advocacy goals of community-based HIV organizations. I’ve conducted and published social research on a range of HIV-related topics, often in collaboration with HIV activists, including, most recently on HIV criminalization.  Most of my work is informed by an approach to sociology called institutional ethnography. I am honored to be included in the Feast Team Centre for STBBI research and am excited by the opportunity to learn from and work with Feast team investigators, collaborators and knowledge users.