Michael Branion-Calles
Michael Branion-Calles
(he/him)

Epidemiologist

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

About Me

I’m an applied epidemiologist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, using linked administrative and clinical data and spatial methods to study STI epidemiology, including HIV prevention and the health of people ageing with HIV. I previously spent a decade in injury epidemiology, focused on road traffic injury and active transportation safety.

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Interests
  • Health Inequities
  • Epidemiology
  • Environmental Health
  • Spatial Science
Education
  • PhD Health Sciences

    Simon Fraser University

  • MSc Geography

    University of Victoria

  • BSc Geography (Geomatics Concentration)

    University of Victoria

My Research

My research applies spatial epidemiology and linked administrative data to questions of geographic variation and equity in health outcomes, with particular attention to what surveillance and administrative data capture, what they miss, and how those gaps shape the evidence used in public health decision making:

Current work in HIV epidemiology

  • Geographic and equity gaps in PrEP uptake — evaluating spatial variation and sociodemographic inequities in pre-exposure prophylaxis access across British Columbia, to inform program planning and resource allocation.
  • Comorbidity trajectories in people living with HIV — characterising patterns of multimorbidity clustering and progression to support care delivery as cohorts age.

Methodological work

  • Selection and ascertainment bias in administrative health data — quantifying how data capture mechanisms differentially affect populations, and what this means for surveillance-based evidence and equity analyses.
  • Sociospatial inequities in road traffic injury — a decade of work integrating health, police, and insurance datasets to understand how injury risk is distributed across populations and places, including a Health System Impact Fellowship embedded in the BC Ministry of Health.
  • Spatial risk modelling in environmental health — earlier work mapping regional indoor radon risk across British Columbia.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2025). Comparing pedestrian and cyclist injuries from falls and collisions in British Columbia, Canada: Frequencies and population characteristics. Journal of Transport & Health, 42 (102044).
(2025). Underreporting and selection bias of serious road traffic injuries in auto insurance claims and police reports in British Columbia, Canada. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 30 (101375).
(2024). Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs). Epidemiology, 35 (2).
(2021). Crowdsourced bicycling crashes and near misses: trends in Canadian cities. Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 9 (1).
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