Catherine Hankins, MD PhD

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class="header__content__laureate__content"> <a href="/public-health-health-promotion-advocacy">Public Health, Health Promotion & Advocacy</a>, <a href="/global-health">Global Health</a>, <a href="/women-medicine">Women in Medicine</a>, <a href="/health-policy">Health Policy</a>, <a href="/infectious-disease-allergy-immunity-0">Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunity</a>, <a href="/leadership-organizational-development">Leadership in Organizational Development</a> </span> </h1> </div> <div class="grid header__content__laureate__bio"> <div class="grid__col--md-6"> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item"> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item--strong">Born: </div> <p>October 8, 1949</p> <p>(Edmonton, Alberta)</p> </div> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item"> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item--strong">Education: </div> <p>MD, University of Calgary (1976)</p> <p>PhD, University of Amsterdam (2014)</p> </div> </div> <div class="grid__col--md-6"> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item header__content__laureate__bio__item__awards"> <div class="header__content__laureate__bio__item--strong"> Awards & Honours: </div> <p>2018: Canadian Woman in Global Health</p> <p>2013: Member, Order of Canada</p> <a href="#" data-popup="popup-awards"><i class="fal fa-arrow-right"></i> See All Awards </a> <div id="popup-awards" class="popup"> <button class="popup__close"><i class="far fa-times" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="webaim-hidden">Close popup</span></button> <div class="scrolling-content scrolling-content__awards"> <h3>Awards & Honours: </h3> <p>2018: Canadian Woman in Global Health</p> <p>2013: Member, Order of Canada</p> <p>2011: Honorary Professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK</p> <p>2003: Mark Wainberg Honorary Plenary, Canadian Association for HIV Research</p> <p>1994: YWCA, Montreal Woman of the Year (Health)</p> <p>1994: National Rolleston Award for Harm Reduction</p> <p>1993: Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Calgary</p> <p>1986: Corporation professionnelle des médecins du Québec, Santé communautaire</p> <p>1981: Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada</p> <p>1978: Certificant, Canadian College of Family Practice</p> <p>1976: Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__col--md-5"> <div class="header__content__laureate--img"> <div class="header__content__laureate--img--relative"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-04/Inductee%20-%20Hankins.jpeg' alt='Dr. Catherine Hankins'> <div class="header__content__laureate--button--absolute"> <button data-popup="popup-video" class="button button--watch">Watch tribute video<i class="fas fa-caret-right"></i></button> <div id="popup-video" class="popup"> <button class="popup__close"><i class="far fa-times" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="webaim-hidden">Close popup</span></button> <div class="scrolling-content breakpoint-shown-md"> 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infectious diseases and protecting at-risk populations are just two of the critical public health aims advanced by Catherine Hankins. Dr. Hankins’ illustrious 40-year career spans many diverse roles and achievements united by her commitment to these goals: providing clinical care as a family doctor, leading novel research in response to global emergencies and mobilizing this research to inform public health policy. An early advocate of focusing on women with HIV in Canada, Dr. Hankins established the first national cohort of women living with HIV in 1993. She also pioneered research on HIV in correctional settings that led to health-benefiting policies in Canada’s penitentiaries. As the global toll of HIV/AIDS grew, Dr. Hankins used modelling to inform HIV prevention while serving with the United Nations as the first Chief Scientific Advisor to the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). With the advent of another pandemic, she co-chaired Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, where she catalyzed household-based testing of immunity and research among at-risk populations. Dr. Hankins’ inspiring contributions to community medicine demonstrate how research can be harnessed to improve health and health equity around the world.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="key-facts" class="section--padded"> <div class="container"> <h2 class="text--centered">Key Facts</h2> <div class="grid grid--flex"> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p style="margin-bottom:11px;">Led frontier research to inform public health policy in response to the global emergencies of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19</p></div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p style="margin-bottom:11px;">Worked on the front lines of public health for the first 20 years of her career, demonstrating outstanding leadership in various positions across Canada.</p></div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p style="margin-bottom:11px;">Served as co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)</p></div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p>Conducted groundbreaking research on HIV in correctional settings in Canada</p></div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p>Established the first national cohort of women living with HIV in 1993</p></div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 cards cards__key_facts"> <p>Fun Fact: A keen reader, Cate/Cathy is a member of the Bond Girls Book Club and shares her love of the outdoors with her four grandchildren through trail hiking, mushroom spotting, scat and bird song identification, and other adventures.</p></div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="timeline-introduction" class="section--padded"> <div class="container"> <h3 class="text--centered">Professional timeline</h3> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-4 grid__col--offset-right-md-2"> <div class="timeline-introduction__text"> <h4>Impact on lives today</h4> <p>Keenly interested in scientific capacity development and advancing women in global health and science, Catherine Hankins has been integral to the development of guidelines and best practices for community engagement in the co-design and co-management of research conduct, and has contributed to shaping new norms in global health research to advance women in science. For over thirty years she has facilitated research capacity strengthening in low- and middle-income countries. A tireless advocate for health equity, she has made a major difference in Canada through lifelong contributions in research, particularly among women, correctional inmates, people who inject drugs, and others, to inform effective public health policy and programmes. A relentless communicator, she has taught knowledge translation at gradual level to the next generation of public health practitioners and has conducted hundreds of media interviews to convey emerging scientific knowledge clearly to the general public.</p> </div> </div> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-6 "> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-02/Hankins%20Photo%202%20cropped.jpeg' alt='hankins cropped'> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="timeline"> <div class="container laureate_achievement"> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--sm-12 grid__col--md-6 grid__col--offset-right-md-7 timeline__end_year"> <h3>2024</h3> </div> </div> <ul> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-07/Hakins%20Inducted%20photo.jpg' alt='Inducted photo'> <time>April 13, 2024</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Catherine Hankins inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame </p> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Vancouver, British Columbia </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/Trudeau.jpeg' alt='Hankins Trudeau'> <time>2020</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) is Co-Chaired by Dr. Hankins</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/health-policy>Health Policy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/impact/improving-health-and-patient-outcomes>Improving health and patient outcomes</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/infectious-disease-allergy-immunity-0>Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunity</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Cate was instrumental in the overall setup and governance of the CITF, guiding the emergency mobilization of research across Canada to understand COVID-19 infection. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/2017%20EDCTP%20SAC%20Mtg%2031%20March.jpeg' alt='Hankins 2017'> <time>2017</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Named Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Programme (EDCTP)</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/impact/building-our-health-organizations-and-systems>Building our health organizations and systems</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/public-health-health-promotion-advocacy>Public Health, Health Promotion & Advocacy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Dr. Hankins served for 6 years during which she was the Scientific Programme Chair for the Tenth EDCTP Forum (2021) in Maputo Mozambique. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/mcgill.png' alt='mcgill epidemiology logo'> <time>2016</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Appointed Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/health-and-medical-education>Health and Medical Education & Training</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Dr. Hankins participated in setting up the new School of Population and Global Health at McGill, lead teaching on knowledge translation for effective public health leadership. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/aighd.png' alt='aighd logo'> <time>2014</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Appointed Deputy Director Science of Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Cate assumed the role of Scientific Chair for six annual INTEREST conferences on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research in Resource-Limited Settings. Also appointed as the Scientific Co-Chair for the Eastern Europe & Central Asia INTERACT. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>2014</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Completed her PhD at Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam</p> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">studying how mathematical modelling can be used to improve HIV prevention policy and programming. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>2013</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Appointed Chair, Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), USA National Institutes of Health, HIV Prevention Trials Network</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>2012</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Appointed Deputy Director of Science at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/global-health>Global Health</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-07/CAPRISA.png' alt='CAPRISA'> <time>2009</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Named Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, 2009- 2017</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>2007</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Co-led the development of the UNAIDS/AVAC Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Guidelines</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Following confrontations in 2004 between activists and political leaders in Cambodia and Cameroon over research conduct, she convened stakeholders to discuss meaningful community engagement in research leading to these biomedical HIV prevention trials </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/2008%20UNAIDS.jpg' alt='Hankins 2008 UNAIDS'> <time>2006-2011</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Served as Editor of HIV This Week, UNAIDS’ popular science blog </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-02/chief%20scientific%20officer.png' alt='chief sci officer hankins'> <time>2002-2011</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Became the first Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS (The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS) </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/public-health-health-promotion-advocacy>Public Health, Health Promotion & Advocacy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>1997</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Chaired the National Task Force on HIV-AIDS and Injection Drug Use </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/health-policy>Health Policy</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">The task force put forward the first recommendations for decriminalization of personal use amounts of drugs and the need to expand syringe programs and methadone substitution. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>1993</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Canada’ first and only national HIV clinical cohort study is established</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/infectious-disease-allergy-immunity-0>Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunity</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/evidence-based-medicine-clinical-trials>Evidence-based Medicine & Clinical Trials</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">'The Canadian HIV Women’s Study' organized by Dr. Hankins ran for more than a decade </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>1989</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Cate Hankins led pioneering research on HIV in correctional settings in Canada</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/health-policy>Health Policy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/evidence-based-medicine-clinical-trials>Evidence-based Medicine & Clinical Trials</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">This research culminated in the first federally and provincially funded needle-syringe program and the policy to place condoms in Canada’s penitentiaries. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/1986%20April%20Montreal.jpeg' alt='hankins 1986 montreal'> <time>1986</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Dr. Hankins appointed Director, Montreal Regional STD Control Program </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/women-medicine>Women in Medicine</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/health-policy>Health Policy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/infectious-disease-allergy-immunity-0>Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunity</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Also appointed as Assistant Professor at McGill. Served as Medical epidemiologist, Montreal Regional Public Health Department (1989 – 2002) and Médecin conseil, Institut national de la santé publique du Québec (2002) </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>1985</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Dr. Hankins is appointed to Canada’s National Advisory Committee on AIDS</p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/infectious-disease-allergy-immunity-0>Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunity</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/public-health-health-promotion-advocacy>Public Health, Health Promotion & Advocacy</a>, <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/leadership-organizational-development>Leadership in Organizational Development</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">She served for eight years chairing several initiatives including the Epidemiology Sub-Committee and HIV & Women Working Group. </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-04/LSHTM%20MSc%20Com%20med%20in%20dev%20countries%201979%20rev.jpg' alt='DR. Hankins 1979 graduating class'> <time>1979</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Earned an MSc Community Health in Developing Countries (cum laude) from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine </p> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <time>1977</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Worked as a physician with Northern Medical Services in Inuvik, N.W.T. </p> <a class="laureate_achievement__theme" href=/patient-care>Patient Care</a> <p class="laureate_achievement__description"> </p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="laureate_achievement__container"> <img src='https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/1976%20U%20of%20C%20photo.jpeg' alt='Hankins 1976'> <time>1976</time> <p class="laureate_achievement__title">Graduated with ‘The Beavers’ class of 1976 from the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine</p> <p class="laureate_achievement__description">Class motto: ‘We give a damn’ </p> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--md-6 grid__col--offset-right-md-4 timeline__start_year"> <h3>1976</h3> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="quote" class="section--padded"> <div class="container"> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--md-6 grid__col--offset-right-md-3 text--centered"> <q>Dr. Hankins has made stellar contributions to the prevention of high-risk infectious diseases and the protection of those at greatest risk of dire outcomes. </q> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="additional-resources" class="section--padded"> <div class="container container__additional-resources"> <div class="grid"> <h2 class="h6 additional-resources__title">Additional Resources: </h2> <ul> <li> <a href=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7171508>Quebec pioneer in HIV/AIDS research to be inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame</a> <i class="far fa-external-link-alt"></i> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/catherine-cate-hankins>Bio by McGill University School of Population and Global Health</a> <i class="far fa-external-link-alt"></i> </li> <li> <a href=https://healthbridge.ca/board/catherine-hankins>Health Bridge</a> <i class="far fa-external-link-alt"></i> </li> <li> <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rZJ23DTSXc6VE8tzj2hYlqEcDOJy8J42/view?usp=sharing>CBC Archive News</a> <i class="far fa-external-link-alt"></i> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90QM7XbA3pI&list=PLA_yskV0YvCh9vqVe86G7A0GBNUWJAVJG&index=5>2024 Induction Ceremony - Dr. Hankins' Podium Speech</a> <i class="far fa-external-link-alt"></i> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </section> <section id="related-laureates" class="section--narrow-top pt-0"> <div class="container"> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--md-4"> <h2>You might also be interested in these Laureates</h2> </div> <div class="grid__col--md-8 "> <div class="grid"> <div class="grid__col--md-5 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