Health & Infectious Disease

 Awarded Grants

• CIHR Population and Public Health (2024-2027) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI), Dr. Gabriela Novotna (Co-I) $332,776. Project title: Community-based pop-up strategies: A rapid assessment and response system to map needle prevalence and implement HIV and syphillis prevention interventions in Regina, Saskatchewan 
• CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $20,000. Project title: Planning a national older adult living with HIV action plan
• CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $20,000. Project title: Developing a research agenda on improving the geriatric care provided to older adults living with HIV
• Judith Friedland (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $4,000. Project title: The experiences and support needs of caregivers navigating end-of-life support for people with HIV: A scoping review
• CIHR Team Grant - HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - Letter of Intent - Dr. Andrew Eaton (Co-I) $99,300. Project title: Exploring HIV care needs and developing HIV programming framework for migrants and ethnic minorities (MEMs) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Catalyst Grant: Nov Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (Co-I) $99,395.63. Project title: Empowering health equity through prevention and self-management: Co-designing culturally tailored pre-clinical & diabetes education fro Black older adults in Peel
• CIHR The New Investigator Forum (2024) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $3,000. Project title: Travel award to attend CIHR's Institute of Infection and Immunity New Investigator Workshop in Spring 2024 in King City, ON.
• SHRF Establishment Grant (2024-2027) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $150,000. Project title: Mapping needles, preventing disease: Establishing feasibility of pop-up HIV and syphilis prevention among people who use drugs in Regina, Saskatchewan
• AgeTech Advance Healthy Aging Research Grant AGE-WELL (2024-2026) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $159,899. Project title: Refinement and feasbility testing of an online patient navigation platform for enhancing access to geriatric and mental health care seniors living with HIV
• CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $20,000. Project title: Planning a national older adult living with HIV action plan
• CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton, Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (Co-PIs) $20,000. Project title: Developing a research agenda on improving the geriatric care provided to older adutls living with HIV
• The Ontario HIV Treatment Network Breaking New Ground (2024-2026) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (Co-PI), Dr, Kristina Kokorelias (PI) $150,000. Project title: Implementing a novel geriatric-HIV clinic in Toronto, Ontario
• SHRF Impact Grant (2023-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $150,000. Project title: Geographic information system real-time mapping of community needles data to target harm reduction interventions in Regina, Saskatchewan: A community-based, mixed-methods study
• CIHR Training Grant (2022-2028) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Nicole Letourneau (PI) (University of Calgary) $2,239,000. Project title: Alliance against violence and adversity (AVA): Health and social services research training platform for system and population transformations in girls' and women's health
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2022-2026) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $294,305. Project title: Identity, development, attraction, and behaviour of heterosexually-identified men who have sex with men (H-MSM)
• CIHR Operating Grant HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research (CBR) Program (2022-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (Co-PI), Dr. Kate Murzin & Dr. Sharon Walmsley (PIs) (UofT) $11,349.98. Project title: PANACHE: Preferences and needs for aging care among HIV-positive elderly people in Canada
• CIHR Planning & Dissemination Grant (2022-2023) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $20,000. Project title: Adapting cognitive remediation group therapy as an online or hybrid intervention for people aging with HIV and cognitive concerns
• CIHR Café Scientifique (2022-2023) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI), Dr. Nuelle Novik $6,000. Project title: Community connectedness for HIV and brain health: A hybrid café to share knowledge on HIV, aging, and cognition

Publications

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Tupper, S.M., Singh, A., Beckwell, E., Fescuic, D. & Fornssler, B. (submitted). Graphic medicine reflective learning activity on chronic pain beliefs among Dentistry students. Journal of Dental Education.

McIntosh, T., Camillo, C.A., Novik, N., Jeffery, B., & Ly, M. (Under Review, June 2025). The big swing toward centralized governance: What we heard from rural Saskatchewan healthcare workers. Healthcare Papers. Longwoods.

Tupper, S.M., Singh, A., Beckwell, E. Fescuic, D. (2025). Dentistry students’ perceptions of key learnings and change in chronic pain beliefs with a graphic medicine reflective learning activity. Canadian Journal of Pain. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2025.2522031

Brown, J., Novik, N., & Apesland, A. (2025). Canadian funeral professionals' experiences working with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Journal of Loss and Trauma, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2025.2459779

Eaton, A. D., *Pang, N., Varghese, S. M., Reddy, V. D., *Ross, S., Novotna, G., Beckwell, E., Medeiros, P., Shuper, P. A., & Ibáñez-Carrasco, F. (2025). ReportNeedles.ca: A real-time needle collection tool to foster community health partnerships. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 18(4), 579-585. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2024.a948682

Kokorelias, K. M., Valentine, D., Eaton, A. D., Dove, E., Su, E., Sheppard, C. L., McKinlay, S., Brown, P., Singh, H. K., Wasilewski, M. B., Flanagan, A., Zhabokritsky, A., Abdelhalim, R., Parpia, R., Zewude, R., Jamieson, L., Walmsley, S., & Sirisegaram, L. (2025). “They didn’t think we’d live this long”: A qualitative exploration of older adults living with HIV perspectives on geriatric care in Ontario. HIV Medicine, 26(8), 1211–1223. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.70047

Brown, P., Singh, H., Su, E., Sirisegaram, L., Munce, S. E. P., Eaton, A. D., Zhabokritsky, A., McKinlay, S., & Kokorelias, K. M. (2024). Understanding the use of co-design methods for research involving older adults living with HIV: A scoping review protocol. PloS one, 19(5), e0303580. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0303580 

Eaton, A. D., Hui, J., Muchenje, M., Kon, T., Murzin, K., Chan Carusone, S., Novik, N., Quigley, A., Kokorelias, K., & Ibáñez-Carrasco, F. (2024). Adapting Cognitive Remediation Group Therapy Online: Focus Groups with People Aging with HIV. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 23, 23259582241242703. https://doi.org/10.1177/23259582241242703

Eaton, A. D., Pang, N., Varghese, S. M., Reddy, V. D., Ross, S., Novotna, G., Beckwell, E., Medeiros, P., Shuper, P. A., & Ibáñez-Carrasco, F. (2024). ReportNeedles.ca: A real-time needle collection tool to foster community health partnerships. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/pchp/preprints/reportneedlesca-real[1]time-needle-collection-tool-foster-community-health-partnerships

Eaton, A. D., Scheadler, T. R., Bradley, C., McInroy, L. B., Beer, O. W. J., Beckwell, E., Busch, A., & Shuper, P. A. (2023). Identity development, attraction, and behaviour of heterosexually identified men who have sex with men: scoping review protocol. Systematic reviews, 12(1), 184. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02355-6

Kokorelias, K. M., Wasilewski, M. B., Flanagan, A., Zhabokritsky, A., Singh, H., Dove, E., Eaton, A. D., Valentine, D., Sheppard, C. L., Abdelhalim, R., Parpia, R., Zewude, R., Jamieson, L., Grosse, A., Walmsley, S. L., Brown, P., & Sirisegaram, L. (2023). Co-creating socio-culturally-appropriate virtual geriatric care for older adults living with HIV: A community-based participatory, intersectional protocol. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231205189

O’Brien, K. K., Ibáñez-Carrasco, F., Birtwell, K., Donald, G., Brown, D. A., Eaton, A. D., Kasadha, B., Stanmore, E., St. Clair-Sullivan, N., Townsend, L., Vera, J. H., & Solomon, P. (2023). Research priorities in HIV, aging and rehabilitation: Building on a framework with the Canada-international HIV and rehabilitation research collaborative. AIDS Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1186/
s12981-023-00582-4

Eaton, A. D., Chan Carusone, S., Murzin, K., Hui, J., McCullagh, J. W., & Walmsley, S. L. (2023). Cognitive screening considerations for psychosocial clinical trials in HIV, aging, and cognition. Clinical trials (London, England), 20(2), 176–180. https://doi.org/10.1177/17407745221136970

Eaton, A. D., Hui, J., Muchenje, M., Murzin, K., Chan Carusone, S., Ibáñez[1]Carrasco, F., Novik, N., McCullagh, J. W., Nicolay, S., & Walmsley, S. L. (2022). Adapting cognitive remediation group therapy as an online or hybrid intervention for people aging with HIV and cognitive concerns: Focus group protocol. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221139014

Alessi, E. J., Cheung, S., Sarna, V., Dentato, M. P., Eaton, A. D., & Craig, S. L.(2022). Experiences of COVID-19 pandemic-related stress among sexual and gender minority emerging adult migrants in the United States. Stress & Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3198

Publications: Other 

Eaton, A. D., Kern, T., Ibáñez-Carrasco, F., Murzin K., Landy, R., Muchenje, M., Jimenez, D., Vera, J. H., Brouilette, M-J., Anderson, M., Da Silva, G., Godin, G[1]H., Moore, C., Pennell, A., & Hui, J. (2024). Unlocking vitality: The mind, brain, and body journey of aging with HIV – Evaluation report. Eaton Lab.

Eaton, A. D., Hui, J., Muchenje, M., Murzin, K., Chan Carusone, S., Novik, N., Kern, T., Moore, C., & Ibáñez-Carrasco, F. (2024). Adapting cognitive remediation group therapy for people living with HIV: Community report. Eaton Lab. https://eaton-lab.com hiv-aging-and-cognition

French version Thérapie de remédiation cognitive en groupe (TRCG) pour les personnes viellissant avec le VIH : Rapport Communautaire. https://eaton[1]lab.com/hiv-aging-and-cognition