Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Abi Sriharan
Assistant Professor and Program Director, Systems Leadership and Innovation
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Global health
- Health Workforce/Physicians/Nurses
- Public Health Crisis/ Crisis Leadership
- Work-Related Stress and Burnout
- Working Women
Office: 416-946-0911
Website
Email: abi.sriharan@utoronto.ca
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Adrienne K. Chan
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine; Division of Clinical Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical management of Ebola Virus Disease and COVID-19
- Global health
- HIV Treatment and Prevention
- Infectious diseases
- Public health
Office: 416-480-6044
Website
Email: adrienne.chan@sunnybrook.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
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Andrea Cortinois
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Cross appointed, Human Biology Program, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Global migration and health
- Global public health
- Health and health equity in highly multicultural societies
Office: 416-978-6051
Languages: Spanish, Italian
Email: a.cortinois@utoronto.ca
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Andrew Pinto
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Director for Clinical Research, UTOPIAN
AI Lead, EXploring Innovative Technologies in Family Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Addictions
- 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 x76148
Website
Email: andrew.pinto@utoronto.ca
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Professor of Critical Development Studies and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Global Health Politics
- History of Health Activism
- History of international health
- History of public health in Latin America (Mexico and Uruguay)
- Philanthrocapitalism and Health
- Societal determinants of 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
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Associate 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
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Brian Schwartz
Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 647-260-7181
Mobile: 647-990-2399
Website
Email: media@oahpp.ca
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Carles Muntaner
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Employment conditions; precarious employment
- Global Health in Europe; Latin America; and the United States
- Philosophy of epidemiology and public health
- Politics; welfare state; and social protection
- Social class; racism; ethnicity; and gender
- Social inequalities in health
Office: 416-978-5502
Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French
Website
Email: carles.muntaner@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Chalin
Professor Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
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
Hon. Staff Physician, Anishnawbe Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal cultural safety
- Aboriginal health
- Disability in aboriginal people
- Ethno-racial diversity in health care
- FASD and criminal justice system
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Indigenous/Aboriginal health
- Poverty and health
- Spirituality and health
- Unemployment and health
Office: 905-990-5111
Mobile: 437-992-5111
Languages: Gujarati
Email: c.shah@utoronto.ca
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Cynthia Whitehead
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Director of the Wilson Centre
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-340-4219
Email: cynthia.whitehead@utoronto.ca
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Dan Allman
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Acting Director of the HIV Studies Unit
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 978-1830
Email: dan.allman@utoronto.ca
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David Fisman
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 978-6866
Email: david.fisman@utoronto.ca
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Dominique Morisano
Adjunct Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
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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Earl Nowgesic
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Epidemiology
- Health services and policy
- HIV prevention and intervention
- Indigenous health
- Nursing
- Population and public health
- Social and behavioural health sciences
Office: N/A
Email: earl.nowgesic@utoronto.ca
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Erica Di Ruggiero
Associate Professor of Global Health & Director, Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Chronic diseases related to food and nutrition
- Global health policy
- Precarious work
- Public health policy
- Social determinants of health; health equity
- Sustainable (global policy agenda)
- Working conditions
Office: 416-978-6066
Languages: French
Email: e.diruggiero@utoronto.ca
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Eva Grunfeld
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Institute for Healthy Policy, Management and Evaluation; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Chair, Institute Advisory Board, Institute for Cancer Research, CIHR
Clinician Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7951
Languages: English
Website
Email: eva.grunfeld@utoronto.ca
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Flora Matheson
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Gambling and homelessness
- Gender inequities in health
- Mental health and addictions
- Prisoner health
- Social determinants of health
- Women's health
Office: 416-864-6060 ext. 77482
Website
Email: flora.matheson@unityhealth.to
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Gillian Einstein
Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences;Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
Adjunct Scientist, Baycrest Hospital, Rotman Research Institute; Adjunct Scientist, Women's College Hospital
Guest Professor of Gender Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden
- 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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Greg Evans
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air pollution in large cities
- Airborne particles
- Climate change
- Development and application of high time resolution instruments for field studies
- Emissions of pollutants
- Engineering education
- Exposure of urban populations to traffic related air pollutants
- Impact of aerosols on health and environment
- Quality and composition of urban air
- Receptor modeling for sources identification and characterization
Office: 416-978-1821
Mobile: 905-626-2895
Languages: French
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
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Hilary Brown
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-208-2239
Website
Email: hk.brown@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Ibukun Abejirinde
Assistant Professor (Status), Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Scientist, Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions & Virtual Care (WIHV)
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: ibukun.abejirinde@utoronto.ca
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James Scott
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Bacteria
- Bioaerosol sampling technology
- Bioaerosols and airborne diseases
- Biodeterioration and biodegradation
- Biological hazards in occupational and environmental hygiene
- Biosafety and biosecurity
- Bioterrorism and biosecurity
- DNA sequence-based studies of human and environmental microbiomes
- Environmental and medical mycology
- Environmental exposures and allergic disease
- Environmental microbiology
- Evolutionary biology and ecology of microfungi
- fungi; mushrooms; mold; yeasts
- Housing and health
- Human microbiome
- indoor air quality
- Microbiology
- 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
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-Indigenous racism in health services
- 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
Email: janet.smylie@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Brook
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-5883
Mobile: 705-970-7121
Website
Email: jeff.brook@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Jillian Kohler
Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Corruption and fraud in the healthcare system
- Global health issues
- Good governance
- Patient protection and access to medicines and vaccines
- Pharmaceutical industry and ethics
- Pharmaceutical industry social responsibility
- Politics of health care
- Procurement of health products
- Transparency and accountability in vaccine development; equitable access to pharmaceuticals globally
- United Nations institutions
Office: 416-946-8708
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Email: jillian.kohler@utoronto.ca
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John David Cassidy
Adjunct Professor, Division of Epidemiology
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Back pain
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- Concussions
- Evidence-based healthcare and policy
- Injury epidemiology
- Mild traumatic brain injury
- Musculoskeletal Epidemiology
- Whiplash
Office: 416-581-7490
Website
Email: dcassidy@health.sdu.dk
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Kate Mulligan
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community health and wellbeing
- Ecological public health
- Health equity
- India crisis & global health inequity
- Public health policy
- Social prescribing
Office: 416.236.2539 ext. 244
Website
Email: kate.mulligan@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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