Dr. Jeffrey Joy is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and in the UBC Bioinformatics and Genome Sciences and Technology Programmes. He is also a Senior Scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) where he leads the Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory. 

Dr. Joy is also head of the BC-CfE Phylogenetic Monitoring Initiative, which is a Provincial, National, and International initiative to employ phylogenetic and other evolutionary genetic techniques to focus the public health response to HIV, HCV and other pathogens to areas, and populations that are in most need of public health resources with the ultimate goal of curbing ongoing transmission. He studies, using phylodynamic methods, the population dynamics of various current and emerging infectious diseases in Canada (e.g. HIV, HCV, Influenza, Mumps Virus, Zika Virus, etc.). Dr. Joy is also involved in HIV cure research.

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