COVID-19
Alison Thompson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency Preparedness and Global Health Security
- Ethics and pandemics
- Ethics and public health
- Ethics and vaccines
- Prioritization of scare resources
- Professional ethics and pharmacy
- Public engagement
- Public health ethics
- Public understanding of risk and vaccination
- Social and ethics issues in health
Office: 416-978-8824
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
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Ambarish Chandra
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7138
Website
Email: ambarish.chandra@rotman.utoronto.ca
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Anna Banerji
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal Health (especially Inuit)
- Adoption Medicine
- Advocacy and Human Rights
- Child health
- Communicable Diseases
- International health
- Public health
- Refugee & Migration Health
- Tropical medicine
Office: 416-978-8319
Website
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Arctic and Inuit health
- COVID response
- Global health
- Global health ethics
- India COVID-19 crisis
- Pandemic influenza
- Primary care
- Public health
- Public health education
- Public health ethics
- Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
- Tobacco control
- Vaccinology
Office: 647-328-5567
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Dan Breznitz
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative politics
- Economic policy
- Innovation policy
- Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
- Rethinking global production supply chains & manufacturing
- Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
Office: 416-946-0584
Website
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David Soberman
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Advertising
- Alliances
- Automotive
- Big data
- Brand management
- Business development
- Business models
- Business strategy
- Canada
- Competition policy
- Competitive strategy
- Consumer products
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corporate strategy
- Creative industries
- Data-driven decision making
- Distribution channels
- Entrepreneurial management
- Europe
- Food industry
- Future of e-commerce
- General management
- Global economic impact of COVID-19
- Leadership
- Management innovation
- Marketing strategy
- Media and entertainment
- Pricing
- Retail
- Sales
- Supply & demand
- Technological innovation
- Telecommunications
- United States
Office: 416-978-5445
Mobile: 416-420-4876
Languages (in addition to English): English and French
Website
Email: david.soberman@utoronto.ca
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David Zweig
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Career management
- Collaboration and communications technologies in the workplace
- COVID-19 How the workforce has changed post-pandemic
- Electronic performance monitoring
- Employee motivation
- Fairness in the workplace
- Future of work
- Hiring
- Is the open concept office dead
- Knowledge hiding in organizations
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge theft
- Privacy
- Tips on how to be productive working from home
- Workplace issues
- Workplace surveillance
Office: 416-287-5613
Languages (in addition to English): Hebrew, English
Website
Email: david.zweig@utoronto.ca
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Dionne Aleman
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Data mining to improve bone marrow transplant outcomes
- Global optimization
- Healthcare applications
- Heuristic design
- Hospital planning
- How to predict who will need ventilators
- Machine learning
- Mathematical models for cancer treatment planning (radiation therapy and focal ablation)
- Mathematical models for operating room scheduling
- Mathematical models for pandemic prediction and planning
- Medical applications of operations research
- Medical decision-making
- Optimization
- Pandemic models and contact tracing
- Parallel computing
- Radiotherapy treatment optimization
- Simulation
- Spread of pandemics in urban areas
Office: 416-978-6780
Website
Email: aleman@mie.utoronto.ca
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Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Financial impact on municipalities
- Intergovernmental transfers
- Municipal finance - revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
- Municipal restructuring
- New sources of municipal revenue
- Property tax reform
- Property tax; property tax reform; intergovernmental transfers; user fees; new sources of municipal revenue
- User fees
Office: 416-946-0328
Email: enid.slack@utoronto.ca
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Harald Bathelt
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic, technology and innovation policy
- German political economy
- Industrial clusters and regional economic development
- Inter-regional inequality and connectivity
- Knowledge creation and innovation over distance
- Regional and national innovation and technological change
- Regional impacts of foreign direct investments
- Socioeconomic impacts of regional industrial and institutional change
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-890-1705
Languages (in addition to English): German,English
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
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Isaac Bogoch
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Global health
- Health Security
- HIV & HIV Prevention
- Infectious diseases
- Public health
- Tropical medicine
Office: N/A
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca
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Ito Peng
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada’s approach to long-term care
- Child care policy
- East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
- East-west comparisons
- Elder care policy
- Family and gender policies
- Fertility
- Japan
- Marriage and aging society
- Social policy
- South Korea
- System issues in long-term care
- Systemic issues at LTC facilities
- Taiwan
- Women and migration
Office: 416-946-5902
Languages (in addition to English): Japanese
Website
Email: itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Lake
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Collaborative practice
- Drug safety
- How pharmacies can prepare
- Integrated healthcare systems
- Interprofessional Healthcare
- Medication management
- Minor ailments
- Pharmacy practice
- Primary care
Office: 416-946-3095
Website
Email: jennifer.lake@utoronto.ca
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Kerry Bowman
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial intelligence
- consumption of wild animals & diseases
- Environmental/climate change ethics
- Ethical implications of vaccine mandates
- Ethics of organ donation law
- Ethics of quarantine
- Forest loss
- Gene editing/gene drive
- Genomic/genetic ethics
- Geoengineering
- Medical assistance in dying
- Physician assisted in dying/end of life
- Reproductive ethics
- Zoonosis
Office: 416-586-4800 Ext. 2163
Home: 416-532-4594
Website
Email: kerry.bowman@utoronto.ca
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Lynette Ong
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6804
Languages (in addition to English): English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
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Michael Stepner
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of COVID-19
- Health economics
- Insurance and income supports
- Labour economics
- Taxation and redistribution
Office: (416) 946-5794
Languages (in addition to English): English,French
Website
Email: michael.stepner@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Chemicals Management
- Environmental and human impacts of digital technologies
- Human and ecosystem exposure to chemical contaminants and microplastics
- Indoor environmental quality
- Sources and fate of chemical contaminants and microplastics
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: N/A
Mobile: +1 (416) 573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
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Richard Powers
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Antitrust
- Argentina
- Automotive
- Brand management
- Brazil
- Business ethics
- Business ethics of supplier agreements with China
- Business strategy
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Compensation
- Competition policy & strategy
- Consumer behaviour
- Corporate corruption and fraud
- Corporate culture
- Corporate governance
- Corporate law
- Corporate social responsibility
- Diversity
- Ethical investing
- Executive pay
- Family-owned businesses
- India aid & ethical responsibility of companies that outsource labour; production
- Management innovation
- Marketing strategy
- Media and entertainment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Non-profit sectors
- Social enterprises
- Sports marketing
- Talent management / employee retention
- United States
Office: 416-946-8610
Mobile: 416-268-7186
Website
Email: richard.powers@rotman.utoronto.ca
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Robert Bothwell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic history
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
Office: 416-946-8948 Ext. 68948
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Roger McIntyre
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Bipolar disorder
- Cognitive dysfunction
- Impact of isolation
- Impact of pandemic on women's health
- Major depressive disorder
- Mental Health, COVID-19
- Pharmacology
- Workplace depression
Office: 416-603-5279
Mobile: 416-669-5279
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: roger.mcintyre@bcdf.org
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Steve Joordens
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anxiety
- Attention
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- Educational Psychology
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental well-being
- Perception
- Skill Development and Measurement
- Social pressure, Managing boundaries
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Website
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