Suzanne Day

Suzanne Day serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, focusing on the social and ethical dimensions of health research in HIV and infectious diseases contexts.

Her academic credentials include:

• Undergraduate degree from Queen's University
• MA from Queen's University
• PhD from York University

Dr. Day's research program examines health disparities through intersectional frameworks, investigating social/political/economic contexts of biomedical research. She specializes in qualitative methodology and stakeholder-engaged approaches, with current projects addressing crowdsourced input for HIV research, adolescent inclusion challenges in clinical trials, and vaccine trial participation barriers. Her work emphasizes ethical frameworks and care theories to address health inequalities.

Her notable recognitions include:

• Women's College Research Institute Fellowship
• UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Fellowship

She actively collaborates on multidisciplinary international projects advancing stakeholder-driven solutions for ethical challenges in infectious disease research, with particular emphasis on community-engaged methodologies and participatory research design.