[2] Hankins subsequently earned her Master's of Science degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and her PhD from the University of Amsterdam.
[4] While serving in this role, she found meat linked to E. coli which caused kidney failure in three children and she sent 49 raw hamburger samples to a laboratory in Edmonton.
[8][9] By 2002, Hankins was recruited by the United Nations to serve as their Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS in Geneva where she led the scientific knowledge translation team focusing on "ensuring ethical and participatory HIV prevention trial conduct, convening mathematical modelling teams, and supporting country implementation of proven biomedical HIV prevention modalities.
"[10] A decade later, in 2012, the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development appointed Hankins as Deputy Director of Science where she would "oversee a range of HIV prevention research, including intervention and demonstration projects, as well as scientific knowledge translation.
[8] In order to complete this objective, the Task Force funded a survey carried out by Statistics Canada to find out how many Canadians were infected by COVID by November.