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Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Abi Sriharan

Professor

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

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

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

Chandrakant Shah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flora Matheson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Ross Baker

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Health services research
  • Healthcare teams
  • Patient safety
  • Quality improvement

Office: 416-978-7804
Mobile: 416-219-4588
Website
Email: ross.baker@utoronto.ca
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Steven Narod

Professor

Steven Narod

Areas of Expertise

  • Breast cancer
  • Cancer control
  • Cancer genetics
  • Cancer prevention
  • Cancer screening
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Prevention medicine
  • Prostate cancer

Office: (416) 351-3766
Website
Email: steven.narod@sw.ca
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Susan Bondy

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied public health
  • Chronic Disease Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of eating disorders
  • Epidemiology of smoking, other addictive substance use, and mental health
  • Health services and evaluation research
  • Health status and unmet needs of prison populations
  • Methods in epidemiology, surveys and surveillance
  • Professional competencies and higher education

Office: (416) 978-0141
Website
Email: sue.bondy@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Jackson

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Centre for Health Promotion (historical)
  • Community resilience in disaster response
  • Economic evaluation in health promotion
  • First People’s Health/circumpolar health promotion
  • Global health promotion
  • Health Promotion planning and evaluation
  • Mental health promotion
  • Participatory Action Research, participatory evaluation processes
  • Qualitative research
  • Realist evaluation-linked coding method
  • Strategic planning and group process

Office: N/A
Email: suzanne.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Stewart

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Indigenous mental health

Office: (416) 828-4715
Website
Email: suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca
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Victoria Arrandale

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Interventions to reduce occupational exposures
  • Novel methods for exposure assessment
  • Occupational exposure assessment
  • Prevention of occupational disease

Office: N/A
Website
Email: victoria.arrandale@utoronto.ca

Walter Wodchis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative effectiveness research
  • Health care finance and economics
  • Health services delivery
  • Health services research
  • Integrated care
  • Long-term care
  • Performance measurement and program evaluation
  • Rehabilitation

Office: (416) 946-7387
Website
Email: walter.wodchis@utoronto.ca
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