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Cassandra Hartblay

Associate Professor

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
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Élyse Caron-Beaudoin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biology
  • Environmental health
  • Public health
  • Toxicology

Office: 647-601-4641
Languages: French,English
Website
Email: elyse.caronbeaudoin@utoronto.ca
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Hilary Brown

Associate Professor

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
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Laura Bisaillon

Associate Professor

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
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Michelle Silver

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gerontology, Aging & Society, Life course research
  • Health information seeking
  • Health information seeking behaviors
  • Intergenerational activities (exercise and health)
  • Perceptions about aging
  • Retirement and later life transitions
  • Seniors
  • Work identity and retirement

Office: 416-287-5642
Website
Email: michelle.silver@utoronto.ca
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Obidimma Ezezika

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

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

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