Faculty Member
Winston Husbands PhD (University of Western Ontario); BA, MPhil (University of the West Indies, Kingston JA)
- Email Address(es)
- winston.husbands(at)utoronto.ca
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate (Restricted) Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
- Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
- No
Research Interests
My research and related knowledge development address (a) how health and wellbeing among Black communities emerge in the context of structural disadvantage, and (b) community-based, self-determined approaches to understanding and promoting health among Black Canadian communities. My research activities have examined sexual health, structural violence and health, health and social justice, and community-engaged research.
Professional Summary & Appointments
I have been involved in research, capacity building and related activities to strengthen the response to HIV among Black communities since the mid-199Os. Initially, I volunteered with the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention. Since then I have been Director of Research at the AIDS Committee of Toronto, a Senior Scientist at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (retired 2021), and a founding co-Chair of the African and Caribbean Council on HIV and AIDS in Ontario. I am currently co-chair of the Interim Committee on HIV among Black Canadian Communities.
Honours & Awards
CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in HIV Research Award for Community-based Research, 2018.
Current Research Projects
No research projects currently in progress.
Representative Publications
Husbands, W., Lawson, D., Etowa, E., Mbuagbaw, L., Baidoobonso, S., Tharao, W., Yaya, S., Nelson, L., Aden, M., Etowa, J. (2022). Black Canadians’ exposure to everyday racism: implications for health system access and health promotion among urban Black communities. Journal of Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00676-w.
Antabe, R., Robinson, K., Husbands, W., Miller, D., Harriott, A., Johnson, K., Wong, J., Poon, M., Kirya J., James, C. et al (2022). “You have to make it cool”: how heterosexual Black men in Toronto, Canada, conceptualize policy and programs to address HIV and promote health. PLoS ONE 17(12): e0278600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278600
Owino, M., Dryden, O., Este, D., Etowa, J., Husbands, W., Nelson, L., Ojukwu, E., Peters, E., Tharao, W. (2024). A manifesto for transformative action on HIV among Black communities in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health 115, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-024-00856-y
Etowa, J., Tharao, W., Mbuagbaw, L., Baidoobonso, S. Hyman, I., Obiorah, S., Aden, M., Etowa, E., Gebremeskel, A., Kihembo, M., Nelson, L., Husbands, W. (2022). Community perspectives on addressing and responding to HIV-testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) among African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) People in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13093-0
Antabe, R., Miller, D., Kohoun, B., Okunufua, O., Husbands, W. (2021). Black resilience: a strategic asset for engaging heterosexual Black Canadian men in community responses to HIV. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01011-w.
Husbands, W., Nakamwa, J., Tharao, W., Greenspan, N., Calzavara, L., Sathiyamoorthy, T., Muchenje-Marisa, M., Arnold, K., Browne, O., Kerr, J. (2020). Love, judgement and HIV: congregants’ perspectives on an intervention for Black churches to promote critical awareness of HIV affecting Black Canadians. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00808-5
Husbands, W., Miller, D., McCready, L., Williams, C. et al. (2019). Sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto: tradition, contradiction and emergent possibilities in the context of HIV and health. Canadian Journal of Sociology 44(4), 399-424.