Robert Remis

Dr. Remis is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. He received his MD from McGill University in 1972 and completed a rotating internship at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. From 1973 to 1980, he worked as a family practitioner in Northern Saskatchewan, in a community clinic near Montreal, and in a rural hospital in the Comoro Islands (off the east coast of Africa). In 1980-81, he undertook further studies in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and received a Master of Public Health degree. From 1981 to 1983, he trained in field epidemiology at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta.

Dr. Remis returned to Canada in July 1983 to coordinate communicable disease prevention and control for the community health departments in Montreal until December 1996.   Since January 1997, he has worked at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto under a mandate from the AIDS Bureau, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to help monitor the HIV epidemic in Ontario. He has published over 60 articles in the areas of HIV, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis and foodborne illness. His current research interests are primarily focussed on HIV infection and include: surveillance, seroepidemiologic studies, modelling, mother-infant and sexual transmission, and HIV prevention policy and programs. He is currently involved in an epidemiologic study and behavioural intervention among female sex workers in Shanghai, China.