Health & Society

Cassandra Hartblay

Director, Centre for Global Disability Studies

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Anthropology
  • Health & Society
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • Centre for Global Disability Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Anthropology
• Disability
• Disability access
• Disability studies
• Ethnography
• Intersectionality
• Russia
• Theatre

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-354-5373
Languages: English, Russian
Website
Email: cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Élyse Caron-Beaudoin

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health & Society

Areas of Expertise

• Biology
• Environmental health
• Public health
• Toxicology

Office: 647-601-4641
Languages: English, French
Website
Email: elyse.caronbeaudoin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ghazal Fazli

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health & Society

Areas of Expertise

• Built environment
• Community engagement
• Health equity
• Immigrant health
• Population health
• Prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes
• Social determinants of health

Office: 647-604-4539
Website
Email: ghazal.fazli@utoronto.ca

Hilary Brown

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Health & Society
  • Psychiatry

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Laura Bisaillon

Associate Professor, UTSC Health and Society

Associate Professor, UTSG Sociology

Associate Professor, UTSG Leadership, Higher & Adult Education

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Health & Society
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
  • Sociology
• Centres
  • Asian Institute
  • Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne (CREFO)

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian immigration system
• Critical social science of HIV/AIDS
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Institutional ethnography
• Migration
• Minoritization
• Political Sociology
• Social organization of medical; legal and bureaucratic knowledge

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michelle Silver

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Health and Society

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health & Society
• Centres
  • Institute for Life Course and Aging
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Health information seeking
• Intergenerational activities (exercise and health)
• Perceptions about aging
• Retirement and later life transitions
• Seniors

Office: 416-287-5642
Website
Email: mpsilver@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Obidimma Ezezika

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Health & Society

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: 416-287-5635
Website
Email: obidimma.ezezika@utoronto.ca

Suzanne Sicchia

Associate Professor Teaching

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Department
  • Health & Society

Areas of Expertise

• Gender and health
• Health In/equity
• Public health education
• Qualitative Health Research
• Social determinants of health
• Violence and Health

Office: N/A
Email: suzanne.sicchia@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online