The Village Lab team includes the Village Lab director, Indigenous Elder and knowledge keeper, manager, graduate and undergraduate students and research assistants, research and community program coordinators, and community members.
All of our research projects involve community advisory boards members who are representative of the diverse communities we work with. This includes people living with HIV, sexual and gender minority men and Two-Spirit people, Indigenous people, immigrants and refugees, racialized communities, and people who use drugs.
Meet the Team
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Dr. Rusty Souleymanov
Lab Director
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Dr. Albert McLeod
Lab Elder
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Melissa Morris
Lab Manager
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Grace Holwell
Knowledge Translation and Exchange Strategist
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Patricia Ukoli
Graduate Research Assistant
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Tara Christianson
Graduate Research Assistant
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Candace Neumann
Graduate Research Assistant
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Noé Prefontaine
Investigaytors Winnipeg Coordinator
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Bolaji Akinyele-Akanbi
Assistant Professor
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Chinyere Njeze
Graduate Research Assistant
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Marni Still
Graduate Research Assistant
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Ann Favel
Community Peer Research Associate
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Dorcas Kwarteng
Graduate Research Assistant
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Danita Wahpoosewyan
Community Peer Research Associate
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Shemar Barnes
Community Associate
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Sana Amjad
Graduate Research Assistant
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Samantha Moore
Graduate Research Assistant
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Jared Star
Graduate Research Associate
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Lydia Hamel
Community Research Associate
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Steven Baldwin
Graduate Research Assistant
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Ali Mohammed
Field Placement Graduate Student
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Berto Uday Norbert
Community Associate
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Skye Wikjord
Research Assistant