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Amrita Daftary, PhD, MPH
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School of Health Policy & Management
Faculty of Health
York University
Toronto, Canada
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adaftary [at] yorku.ca
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听Research
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Dr. Daftary is a social and behavioural global health researcher. She has expertise in qualitative research methods, implementation science and evaluation, and health services research. Dr. Daftary examines health care seeking and caregiving practices for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. She is well cited for her work on stigma associated with TB, including drug-resistant TB and TB-HIV coinfection. Her projects are based in a number of global settings, particularly South Africa, India, and Canada. Dr. Daftary is Director and Founder of SSHIFTB, a global virtual centre on Social Science & Health Innovations For Tuberculosis, at York University's Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research. She also holds adjunct appointments at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health and University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). She is a Section Editor (social and behavioural research) at PLoS Global Public Health, and serves on the academic editorial boards for PLoS One and Scientific Reports. Dr. Daftary was nominated to the inaugural list of Canadian Women Leaders in Global Health.
Keywords
- Tuberculosis, drug-resistant TB, HIV/AIDS
- Social determinants of health 鈥� stigma, quality of care
- Health services research and evaluation
- Qualitative methods, mixed methods
- Implementation science, e-health interventions
Selected Publications:听 听 听 听 听 听 听
1.听听听听听Daftary A, Frick M, Venkatesan N, Pai M.听.听BMJ Glob Health. 2017; 2:e000515
2.听听听听听Craig G,听Daftary A, Engel N, O鈥橠riscoll S.听.听Int J Infect Dis. 2017; 56:90-100.
3.听听听听听Daftary A, Hirsch-Moverman Y, Kassie GM, Melaku Z, Gadisa T, Saito S, Howard AA.听.听AIDS Behav, 2017; 21(11):3057-67.
4.听听听听听Hirsch-Moverman Y,听Daftary A, Yuengling KA, Saito S, Frederix K, Maama LB, Howard AA.听.听JAIDS,听2017; 1(S1):S37-43.
5.听听听听听Daftary A, Calzavara L, Padayatchi N.听.听AIDS, 2015; 29(1):1-4.
6.听听听听听Daftary A, Padayatchi N, O鈥橠onnell MR.听.听Glob Public Health,听2014; 9(9):1107-16.
7.听听听听听Daftary A.听.听Soc Sci Med, 2012; 74(10):1512-9.
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