Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Abi Sriharan

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Centres
- Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

Global health
Health Workforce/Physicians/Nurses
Public Health Crisis/ Crisis Leadership
Work-Related Stress and Burnout
Working Women

Office: N/A
Website
Email: abi.sriharan@utoronto.ca
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Amaya Perez-Brumer

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

to design and implement critical HIV biosocial interventions that promotes equity through globally interconnected work,
to draw on gender and queer theory to examine the consequences of social marginalization, stigma, and exposure to violence on HIV prevention and care outcomes for communities most impacted,

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: a.perezbrumer@utoronto.ca

Catherine Chalin

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres

Areas of Expertise

Child poverty
Disabilities - hearing loss
Global public health
Human rights
Medical education
Peace-building through public health
Public health in conflicted regions of the world
Uprooted people - refugees, street people, immigrants

Office: 416-978-7806
Email: c.chalin@utoronto.ca
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Chandrakant Shah

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

aboriginal cultural safety initiative
Aboriginal health
community health centers
Diversity and health
Employment Equity in work place
health of marginalized groups
homelessness and health
hunger and health
social class and health
Spirituality and health
Unemployment and health

Office: 9059905111
Languages: English,Gujarati
Email: c.shah@utoronto.ca
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Christine Shea

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

Leadership
Patient safety
Quality improvement
Quality of Health Care

Office: (416) 946-3862
Languages: French,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: christine.shea@utoronto.ca

Dan Allman

Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Acting Director of the HIV Studies Unit

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Social and historical perspective of HIV/AIDS

Office: (416) 978-1830
Email: dan.allman@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Buchman

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Cannabis and corporate influences on mental health
Empirical approaches to bioethics
Ethics and opioids
Ethics and psychedelics
Ethics of big data and artificial intelligence
Identity, moral responsibility, and compassion
Neurotechnology
Palliative approaches to mental health care
Stigma on mental health, substance use, and chronic pain

Office: N/A
Website
Email: daniel.buchman@utoronto.ca

David Fisman

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia
Coronavirus outbreak
Decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
Epidemiology of enteric infections
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Infectious diseases, seasonality, environment, and climate change
Laboratory datasets as epidemiological resources
Mathematical modeling and simulation
Sexually transmitted infections

Office: (416) 978-6866
Languages: English
Website
Email: david.fisman@utoronto.ca
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Dominique Morisano

Adjunct Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Addiction (esp. cannabis, alcohol, cocaine)
Clinical psychology
Evidence based practices and their implementation
Goals and Motivation
Harm-reduction approach
Implementation science and the use of evidence in treatment systems
Mental health (depression, anxiety, trauma)
Mental health and wellness service-system improvements for Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Mindfulness-based interventions
Psychedelics-Assisted Therapies and Research, psychedelic industry, psychedelics and mental health, psychedelics and addiction
Research and publication ethics

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-792-8778 (work mobile)
Email: dominique.morisano@utoronto.ca
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Erica Di Ruggiero

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Chronic diseases related to food and nutrition
Global agenda setting in policy
Knowledge utilization and exchange strategies to influence public health decision-making at national and global levels
Population health intervention and implementation research/science
Precarious work
Qualitative research and mixed methods research, discourse analysis
Relationship between context and population health interventions
Social and economic policies influencing decent work at the global level
Sustainable (global policy agenda)
Working conditions

Office: (416) 978-6066
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: e.diruggiero@utoronto.ca
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Flora Matheson

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

Areas of Expertise

e-Health Solutions
Gambling and homelessness
Gender inequities in health
Mental health
Mental health and addictions
Mixed Methods
Neighborhoods
Prisoner health
Problematic Gambling
Social determinants of health
Substance Use
Women's health

Office: N/A
Website
Email: flora.matheson@utoronto.ca
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France Gagnon

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Application of polygenic risk scores
Cardiovascular genetics and epidemiology
Genomic and epigenomic epidemiology
Knowledge synthesis through systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Quantitative trait genetics
Research training with specific emphasis on comprehensive cross- and inter-disciplinary training for epidemiological and statistical genetic research

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: france.gagnon@utoronto.ca

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

AI, hybrid, blended, flipped, digitized, mobile learning for all!
Cognitive and physical maintenance for those of us ageing with chronic episodic medical conditions such as mood disorders, HIV and MS
Health research with “patients” as “peer researchers”
Participatory knowledge mobilization of research evidence and “lived experience” for all audiences

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,English
Website
Email: francisco.ibanez.carrasco@utoronto.ca

Ibukun Abejirinde

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Community engagement & innovation
Digital health & artificial intelligence
Global health
Implementation Research
Learning health systems
Migrant/newcomer/refugee health

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ibukun.abejirinde@utoronto.ca
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James Scott

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Bacteria
Bioaerosol sampling technology
Bioaerosols and airborne diseases
Biodeterioration and biodegradation
Biological hazards in occupational and environmental hygiene
Biosafety, biosecurity and bioterrorism
DNA sequence-based studies of human and environmental microbiomes
Environmental and medical microbiology
Environmental exposures and allergic disease
Evolutionary biology and ecology of microfungi
Fungi; mushrooms, mold, yeasts
Housing and health
Human microbiome
Molecular detection of bioaerosols
Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease
Plant disease
Viruses

Office: (416) 946-8778
Website
Email: james.scott@utoronto.ca
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Janet Smylie

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Anti-Indigenous racism in health services
Health inequities that challenge Indigenous infants
Indigenous data sovereignty and health information systems
Indigenous health and public health
Indigenous health equity across geographies with a focus on inclusion of FNIM living in urban and related homelands

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 864-6060
Website
Email: janet.smylie@utoronto.ca

Jeffrey Brook

Associate Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres
- Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium
- Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosols

Areas of Expertise

air pollution
Climate
Environmental health
Equity
Exposure assessment
Health effects studies
Urban air quality
Urban form and planning

Office: 416-978-5883
Mobile: 705-970-7121
Website
Email: jeff.brook@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Kate Mulligan

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Applied public policy
Climate and health
Community development
Community governance and partnership
Community health and wellbeing
Comprehensive primary health care
Development and well-being
Discourses of health
Ecological public health
Government relations
Health equity
Healthy cities
India crisis & global health inequity
Place-based policymakingIndigenous
Political ecologies of community health and wellbeing
Public health policy
Social prescribing

Office: N/A
Website
Email: kate.mulligan@utoronto.ca
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Laura Rosella

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres
- Management and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

Diabetes and obesity prevention
Epidemiology
Evidence in public health decision-making
Health services research
Impact of prevention on health care sustainability
Obesity
Population health
Population health interventions
Population-based risk tools to support health decision-making
Public health policy
Type 2 diabetes

Office: (416) 978-6064
Mobile: (416) 258-4678
Website
Email: laura.rosella@utoronto.ca
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Nigel Turner

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

Behavioural addictions
Gambling
Psychological measurement
Psychology of addiction

Office: 416-535-8501
Website
Email: nigel.turner@camh.ca
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Quynh Pham

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Centres
- Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

Caregiving
Chronic disease management
Digital therapeutics
Enthnoracial equity
Real-world evidence

Office: N/A
Email: q.pham@utoronto.ca

Raisa Deber

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

Canadian health policy
Health care financing
Health care home and community care
Health human resources
Medical decision-making
Public/private mix

Office: (416) 978-8366
Website
Email: raisa.deber@utoronto.ca
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Robert Schwartz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

accountability mechanisms and their impacts
assuring the quality of evaluative information
cannabis policy
crises, accountability and policy change
evaluating complex strategies and policy initiatives
evidence-based policy
government third sector relations, implications for policymaking and accountability
performance measurement, balanced score cards, program evaluation, performance auditing
Public health policy
tobacco control policy and evaluation

Office: (416) 978-3901
Languages: Hebrew
Website
Email: robert.schwartz@utoronto.ca
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