Dr Jaime Garcia-Iglesias is a Chancellor's Fellow in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He works in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. 

He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2020 as Mildred Baxter Research Fellow after working on NIHR-funded evaluations at the University of Hertfordshire. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester, a PhD in Literature from the University of Oviedo, and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Nottingham.

As a social scientist, Jaime's work sits at the intersection of sociology, public health and cultural studies. His work aims to understand people's experience of infectious disease, particularly sexually transmitted infections. He has often focused on gender and sexual minority communities, and is actively engaged in interdisciplinary work across antimicrobial resistance, genomics, and vaccination. 

Methodologically, he is a mixed methods scholar with a focus on qualitative and collaborative approaches, and a strong policy focus. 

Past and present projects:

• Jaime was Principal Investigator in the ESRC-funded New Investigator Award "Viral Memories: From HIV to COVID-19 and beyond" (2022-2025) which sought to understand how gay men in the UK mobilised memories of HIV to naviagate COVID-19. 
• Jaime was co-investigator in the ESRC-funded "COVID Intimacies: Resilience and Viral Safety among LGBT and Heterosexual People Using Dating Apps in the COVID-19 Era" project (2022-2024), which focused on understanding the use of dating apps among heterosexual and LGBTQ+ communities during COVID-19, and the impacts on risk negotiation. 
• Jaime was co-investigator in the ESRC-funded Staregic Urgency Grant "Social Science Issues Relating to Monkeypox" (2022-2023), which deployed social sciences tools to understand collaboration and community involvement during the 2022-23 mpox outbreak in the UK. 
• He has also received funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation, and the UK International Coronavirus Network. 

Jaime is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the interface between sexuality, health, memory and online/offline practices. He is currently working on a variety of projects focused on how gay men negotiate HIV risk and COVID-19 risk, people experience memories of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and use of the internet for wellbeing during COVID-19. 

He hashave authored reports and papers on the impact of COVID-19 on LGBT+ people's lives and health and provided evidence to the UK Parliament on PrEP delivery nationwide. 

He is am also actively working on pandemic preparedness and response, including COVID-19 and mpox. 

PhD Literature, 2025 (University of Oviedo)

PhD Sociology, 2020 (University of Manchester)

BA English Studies, 2016 (University of Oviedo)

MA Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, 2017 (University of Nottingham)

As a sociologist, Jaime seeks to understand how people experience their sexuality and sexual health, make decisions around healthcare, and seek support. He can deploy a wide range of research techniques to understand how services work and evaluate interventions. He has particular expertise in evaluating digital and remote care interventions for HIV testing, sexual health and social support targetted at LGBT+ people. 

He is interested in engaging with community partners and commercial stakeholders to evaluate service delivery during COVID-19 and develop new guidelines. 

Jaime leads the "Health, Illness and Society" module for third-year Honours Medical Sciences Students. 

He also contributes to supervision of undergraduate students across the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and supervision of PGT students in the Masters of Public Health programmes. 

Jaime currently supervises PhD students on the topics of drug policy implementation, and on gender-based violence. 

He am interested in supervising research students in health, digital health, sexuality and qualitative methods.