Meaghan Anne Thumath

PhD, MSc PH, BSN, RN

Bio

• Regional Director Communicable Disease Control, Office of the Chief MHO, VCH
• Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
• Clinician Scientist, Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE), University of British Columbia 

May also be eligible for co-supervision of MSN Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.

Profile

Meaghan is a registered nurse and senior practice leader at the BC Centre for Disease Control, where she started her career as a street nurse and has moved into policy and leadership roles in the overdose and HIV response.  She holds advance practice nursing certification in sexual and reproductive health as well as an addiction nursing fellowship and advanced training in HIV and public health. She is currently working on her PhD part-time as a Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence Based Intervention researching the impact of child welfare policy on marginalized women's health.

As a clinical nurse specialist Meaghan has provided technical assistance to international organizations such as WHO, UNAIDS and the World Bank supporting improved access to care for people who use drugs in Central Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. In Canada she was the clinical coordinator of Insite and also led the implementation of the STOP HIV program for Vancouver Coastal Health where they successfully doubled the region's HIV testing and treatment rates. She has won multiple work for her dedication to the nursing profession and her work improving health equity including an Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Education Teaching at UBC, a British Columbia Premier's Award Innovation Category and an Excellence in Nursing Education from the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia.  She is also an active volunteer in her community where she serves as a volunteer Director with the housing and social care agency PHS Community Services Society.

Educational Background

BSN (Nursing), University of British Columbia
DLSHTM (Public Health), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MScPH (Public Health), University of London

Publications

Selected Publications not Indexed in PubMed

Meaghan Thumath: COVID-19 and Inequities in Health — Below the Radar Conversations, 2020 | other
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:15725ae240bab57ddbf535d67a7851fe61d187e942467cdd35e4c9d8b56c6f99
Source:Meaghan Thumath via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

"Offline: Part of the human experience" The Lancet 
2018-11 | journal-article
Part of DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32857-5
Part of ISSN: 0140-6736
Source:Meaghan Thumath

Expecting Better: Improving Health and Rights for Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs
2018 | report SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:ce5a8b5e5969e12354a040ed91c5114682875699b48cc909ef7a8a2e9d4e0802
Source:Meaghan ThumathviaBASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Awareness and use of nonoccupational post-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada HIV Medicine
2016 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12369
EID: 2-s2.0-84991384072
Source:Meaghan ThumathviaScopus - Elsevier

HIV testing behaviour and use of risk reduction strategies by HIV risk category among MSM in Vancouver International Journal of STD and AIDS
2016 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/0956462415575424
EID: 2-s2.0-84958152742
Source:Meaghan Thumath via Scopus - Elsevier

Implementation of HIV treatment as prevention strategy in 17 Canadian sites: immediate and sustained outcomes from a 35-month Quality Improvement Collaborative BMJ Qual Saf
2015-07 | journal-articleDOI: 10.1136/bmjqs
-2015-004269
Source:Meaghan Thumath via Crossref Metadata Search

24(th) Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research/24(e) Congrès Annuel Canadien de Recherche sur le VIH/sida CAHR Committees / Comités de l'ACRV. The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale
2015-03 | journal-article
PMID: 26015799
PMC: PMC4427862
Source:Meaghan Thumath via Europe PubMed Central

Relationship between disclosure of same-sex sexual activity to providers, HIV diagnosis and sexual health services for men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada. Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 
2014-04 | journal-article
PMID: 25165837
PMC: PMC6972168
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.105.4212
Source:Meaghan Thumath via Europe PubMed Central

Risks for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among Asian men who have sex with men in Vancouver, British Columbia: a cross-sectional survey. BMC public health
2013-08 | journal-article
PMID: 23947623
PMC: PMC3751745
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-763
Source:Meaghan Thumath via Europe PubMed Central

Thumath, M, Nettleton C, Stephens C, Napolitano D (2007). Peoples of North America Section: Overview of the existing global knowledge on the social determinants of Indigenous Health. WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health: World Health Organization. PDF link 

Granger P, Thumath M (2004) UBC Division of Inner City Health. University of British Columbia, Department of Family Practice Research: Volume 4, Issue 1, p. 2-3.

B. Lightfoot, C. Panessa, S. Hayden, M. Thumath, I. Goldstone, B. Pauly (2009). Gaining Insite: Harm Reduction in Nursing Practice. Canadian Nurse: Apr; 105(4):16-22.

Supervisor Eligibility

MSN - thesis, PhD