Amaya Perez-Brumer

Associate Professor of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences


Dr. Amaya Perez-Brumer is a leading Latinx critical global health scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She holds a CIHR Canada Research Chair in Global Health Intervention Justice and is affiliated with the Women & Gender Studies Institute. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an MSc from Harvard, her research focuses on using gender and queer theory to address HIV prevention, designing equitable interventions, and analyzing global health research through a science and technology studies lens. She integrates social science theory with innovative methods to improve HIV prevention among marginalized communities globally. Dr. Perez-Brumer has published extensively and leads projects in Peru supported by SSHRC. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Global Public Health and contributes to significant HIV research networks.