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Annick Bórquez, MSc, PhD, is an HIV and drug use epidemiologist at the division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UCSD. Her research seeks to improve the health of marginalized populations through developing, applying and integrating mathematical modeling, cost effectiveness and qualitative methods to better understand, predict and respond to intersecting epidemics of drug use disorders, overdose, HIV, HCV and other associated health harms; with a focus on social and structural determinants of health. She has led multiple studies to inform intervention and policy planning in HIV and substance use among people who inject drugs, justice involved populations, female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender women in a range of settings, including Mexico, Peru, West and Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Russia and the United States.

Dr. Bórquez has a background in medical microbiology from the University of Edinburgh and holds an MSc. and a PhD. in epidemiology from the department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. She has long standing collaborations with the HIV Modelling Consortium at Imperial College London, UNAIDS, the Universidad Cayetano Heredia in Peru and is currently a visiting fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Center (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

She is the principal investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Avenir 5 year grant to adapt emerging infectious diseases methods including internet/big data analysis and mathematical modeling, to the field of drug use to better understand, predict and respond to emerging drug use epidemics and associated harms in the United States.