Social determinants of health

Andrew Pinto

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• AI in Health Care
• COVID-19
• Equity
• Family medicine
• HIV
• Homelessness
• Mental illness
• Prevention
• Primary care
• Public health
• Social determinants of health

Office: 416-864-6060 Ext. 76148
Languages: English
Website
Email: andrew.pinto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Esme Fuller-Thomson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Areas of Expertise

• adverse childhood experience
• attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
• chronic health conditions
• gerontology
• grandparents and raising grandchildren
• Immigrant and refugee health
• Long-term health consequences of childhood abuse
• Mental health
• Social determinants of health
• Socioeconomic gradient in disability rates

Office: 416-978-3269
Home: 416-760-8176
Mobile: 416-209-3231
Website
Email: esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Harvey Nicholson Jr

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Health disparities
• Race and ethnicity
• Social determinants of health
• Substance use behaviors

Office: N/A
Website
Email: harvey.nicholsonjr@utoronto.ca

Najma Ahmed

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Surgery

Areas of Expertise

• Access to emergency surgical care
• Emergency surgery
• Gun Violence
• Physician advocacy
• Social determinants of health
• Surgery
• Trauma

Office: 416-864-5481
Languages: English,Urdu
Website
Email: najma.ahmed@unityhealth.to
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peter Newman

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Areas of Expertise

• Community engagement
• evidence-making interventions
• Gay and lesbian youth (bullying and stigma)
• Gay men and other men who have sex with men
• Global health
• HIV risk & prevention
• LGBTQ+ health & human rights
• New HIV prevention technologies
• Social determinants of health
• vaccine hesitancy (HPV, COVID-19, HIV)

Office: 416-566-3455
Website
Email: p.newman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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