Adrienne K. Chan

Adrienne K. Chan is an Infectious Diseases physician and Clinician Investigator at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Chan’s areas of expertise include differentiated models of HIV care and treatment delivery in low resource settings, optimizing management of opportunistic infections in low resource settings, and the health systems effects of emerging infectious diseases (Ebola, COVID-19, Mpox). She is cross-appointed to the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, where she has taught on Health Systems Management in International Settings.

Over the last 18 years, Dr. Chan has worked in southern Africa with clinical experience in Malawi, Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe, and multiple research collaborations with regional and international networks. From 2007-2019, Dr. Chan worked for Dignitas International, a Canadian medical-research NGO, as the organization’s HIV Clinic Coordinator and Medical Coordinator in Malawi, and later as their Medical Advisor.  In 2014-2015 she worked as a clinical consultant for the WHO Ebola Response Team in Sierra Leone and has ongoing research capacity building collaborations with Sustainable Health Systems, Sierra Leone.

Dr. Chan trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto. She earned an MD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and an MPH (Frank Knox Memorial Fellow) at Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Madiro Foundation (madiro.org), is the Chair of the Board of Partners in Health Canada (pihcanada.org), and serves on the Board of Trustees for Partners in Health (pih.org).

Current Publications List at PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/adrienne.chan.1/bibliography/public/