Public Health Sciences
Abdallah Daar
Professor Emeritus, Clinical Public Health Division
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Biotechnology
- Chronic Non-communicable diseases
- Global mental health
- Global public health
- Human genome variation
- Innovation and Reform in Medical and Health Sciences Education
- Public health ethics
- Science and technology policy
Office: 416-673-6573
Languages: Arabic, Swahili
Email: a.daar@utoronto.ca
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Alison Thompson
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Public Health Services
Professor of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- 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
Mobile: 416-819-6581
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Professor of Critical Development Studies and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- History of public health
- History of public health in Latin America (Mexico and Uruguay)
- International health
- Societal determinants of health
- Women and international health
Office: 416-287-7322
Home: 416-924-7803
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Website
Email: ae.birn@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nunavut
- 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: Not Available
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Denise Gastaldo
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4953
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Email: denise.gastaldo@utoronto.ca
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Gillian Einstein
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- BRCA mutation (breast and ovarian cancer) prophylaxis effects on cognition
- Cognitive effects of oophorectomy
- Effects of culture and experience on the nervous system
- Effects of steroid hormones on mental health
- Effects of the menstrual cycle on mood and sleep
- Estrogen and the brain
- Female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting
- Gender and health
- Interactions between sex and gender
- sex differences
- Women's health
Office: 416-978-0896
Website
Email: gillian.einstein@utoronto.ca
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Laura Rosella
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6064
Mobile: 416-258-4678
Website
Email: laura.rosella@utoronto.ca
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Nigel Turner
Assistant Professor (status only)
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-535-8501 x 6063
Home: 905-725-7479
Mobile: 905-621-4157
Email: Nigel.Turner@camh.ca
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Peter Selby
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-535-8501, ext. 6859
Languages: Hindi
Email: peter.selby@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Steven Narod
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Breast cancer
- Cancer control
- Cancer genetics
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Ovarian cancer
- Prevention medicine
- Prostate cancer
Office: 416-351-3765
Website
Email: steven.narod@wchospital.ca
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Susan Bondy
Associate Professor, Epidemiology Division
Program Director, MPH Epidemiology
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Alcohol Use Patterns
- Chronic disease prevention
- Epidemiology and health data; alcohol; tobacco; other drugs
- Harms associated with alcohol
- Population surveys on health-related topics
- Tobacco and Second Hand Smoke
- Tobacco control
Office: 416-978-0141
Home: 416-482-8169
Mobile: 416-567-7458
Email: sue.bondy@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Jackson
Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community-engaged evaluation and research
- Health promotion
- Healthy communities/healthy settings
- Mental health promotion
Office: 416-536-8997
Email: suzanne.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Valerie Tarasuk
Professor of Nutritional Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Food and nutrition
- Food and poverty
- Food banks
- Food fortification in Canada
- Food insecurity
- Food policy
- Nutrition inequities
- Nutrition labelling
Office: 416-978-0618
Mobile: 647-517-1860
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
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