Professor Jamie Frankis
Professor of Health and Society; SHBBV Research Group Co-Lead
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Professor Jamie Frankis co-leads the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses Research Group at Glasgow Caledonian University in the School of Health and Life Sciences. With over 20 years of research expertise, his work addresses sexual health, HIV, PrEP and the multiple health inequalities experienced by LGBTQIA+ folk in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and beyond.
Jamie is a Social Scientist who gained his PhD in Health Psychology from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2012. He has been chief investigator on multiple research grants and leads biobehavioural surveillance of GSMSM in Scotland, including Scotland’s Gay Men’s Bar Survey and SMMASH (Social Media, Men who have sex with men) and Sexual and Holistic Health Studies. He has worked closely with multiple NHS Health Boards and 3rd Sector Organisations across Scotland to enhance LGBTQIA+ health and wellbeing, as well as collaborated with prestigious research organisations across the UK, EU, Canada, US and Australia. Jamie is also leading the development of an LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Network for Scotland, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the PEERS study (Hepatitis C trust), examining how national peer models can be understood and implemented.
Jamie currently supervises several PhD students, has multiple DOS completions and has examined PhDs across Scotland, England and Australia. A Senior Fellow of the Health Education Authority, he led undergraduate Evidence-Based Practice teaching across the Department of Nursing and Community Health and post-graduate Research Methods teaching across the School of Health and Life Sciences for a decade. He is also Associate Editor of the BMJ STI journal, REDCap Lead for GCU, panel member of the Mental Health Tribunal Service, Scotland.