Health and Society

Cassandra Hartblay

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • Centre for Global Disability Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Critical Design Studies / Anthropology of Design and Infrastructure
• Critical disability studies
• Critical social theory
• Documentary practices
• Epistemology
• Ethnography
• Health and socialism / postsocialism
• Health Humanities
• Medical Anthropology
• Performance Ethnography, Research Creation, and arts-based inquiry
• Queer/Feminist Transdisciplinary Research
• Russia and the former Soviet Union
• Russo-Finnish borderlands
• Whiteness, Ethnicity, and Debility

Office: (647) 601-4457
Languages: Russian
Website
Email: cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Élyse Caron-Beaudoin

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society

Areas of Expertise

• Biology
• Environmental health
• Public health
• Toxicology

Office: 647-601-4641
Languages: French,English
Website
Email: elyse.caronbeaudoin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Hilary Brown

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society

Areas of Expertise

• Chronic illness
• Disability
• Epidemiology
• Maternal and child health
• Reproductive health

Office: 416-208-2239
Website
Email: hk.brown@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Laura Bisaillon

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian immigration system
• HIV/AIDS
• Horn of Africa
• Institutional ethnography
• Knowledge production
• Migration, minoritization
• Visual analysis

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michelle Silver

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society
• Centres
  • Institute for Life Course and Aging
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• gerontology
• Health information seeking
• Health information seeking behaviors
• Intergenerational activities (exercise and health)
• Life course and aging
• Perceptions about aging
• Retirement and later life transitions
• Seniors
• Work identity and retirement

Office: 416-287-5642
Website
Email: michelle.silver@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Obidimma Ezezika

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society

Areas of Expertise

• Food Security & Sovereignty
• Global Health equity
• Global Health Pedagogy
• Global Nutrition with a focus on Africa
• Implementation Science
• Science & Technology Policy in Africa

Office: (416) 208-5635
Website
Email: obidimma.ezezika@utoronto.ca

Suzanne Sicchia

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health and Society

Areas of Expertise

• Community Health & Primary Care
• Comparative Global Health Policy
• Critical Pedagogy for Public Health
• Gender and health
• Health In/equity
• Public health education
• Qualitative Health Research
• Social determinants of health
• Social Medicine
• Social Theory & Health
• Violence & Health
• Violence and Health

Office: (416) 208-2700
Website
Email: suzanne.sicchia@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online