Our Team

Dr. Sofia Bartlett PhD is a public health scientist committed to advancing equity-oriented approaches to the prevention, care, and surveillance of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) and other communicable diseases in Canada. She is the founder and director of the You Matter Lab, which is grounded in community-engaged, applied public health research. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods, with experience spanning communicable disease surveillance, descriptive and inferential epidemiology, realist evaluation, quality improvement science, community-based research, and participatory approaches.

Sofia currently serves as Interim Scientific Director of Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control, where she provides strategic and scientific leadership for provincial STBBI and tuberculosis programming and surveillance. She is also an Assistant Professor (Partner) in the UBC School of Population and Public Health, and an investigator with both the CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI Clinical Trials Research (CTN+) and the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C (CanHepC). She co-leads the UBC Transformative Health and Justice Research Cluster (THJRC).

Across all her work, Sofia is focused on disrupting systems of stigma, amplifying the voices of people most affected by health inequities, and translating evidence into action.