Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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
Abi Sriharan
Assistant Professor and Program Director, Systems Leadership and Innovation
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 and Health Care Workers
- Health Care Leadership
- Health Systems Transformation
- Women's health
- Work Stress and Burnout
Office: 416-946-0911
Website
Email: abi.sriharan@utoronto.ca
Adrienne K. Chan
Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Antiretroviral therapy and HIV related services
- Clinical management of Ebola virus disease and post-Ebola syndrome
- Delivery of health services in resource limited settings
- HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
- Non-governmental organizations
- Prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
- Reduction of mortality due to opportunistic infections (specifically TB and cryptococcal meningitis) in HIV patient with severe immunosuppression
- TB/HIV and NCD/HIV program integration
- West Africa Ebola Outbreak: long-term clinical and health systems sequelae
Office: 416-480-6044
Mobile: 647-628-8123
Website
Email: adrienne.chan@sunnybrook.ca
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
Andrea Cortinois
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Global migration and health
- Global public health
- Health and health equity in highly multicultural societies
- Medical needs of Syrian refugees in Canada
- Refugee health issues
Office: 416-978-6051
Email: a.cortinois@utoronto.ca
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
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
- Pandemic influenza
- Primary care
- Public health
- Public health education
- Public health ethics
- Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
- Tobacco control
- Vaccinology
Office: Not Available
Home: 416-328-5567
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
Brian Schwartz
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 647-260-7181
Home: 416-781-0182
Mobile: 647-990-2399
Website
Email: janet.wong@oahpp.ca
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
Areas of Expertise
- Europe
- Global employment conditions and health
- Health policy and health
- Labor markets and health
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Politics
- Precarious employment
- Social inequalities in health
- Social policy
- Socioeconomic inequalities in health
- South Korea
- Thailand
- Welfare state
Office: 416-978-5502
Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French
Website
Email: carles.muntaner@utoronto.ca
Carlos Quinonez
Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry
Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health, Dana Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Applied policy analysis
- Dental care
- Dental public health
- Health services equity
- Health services research
- Oral health
- Public health dentistry
- Social sciences and dentistry
- Social sciences and health
- The politics and economics of dentistry
Office: 416-979-4908 x 4491
Website
Email: carlos.quinonez@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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
Chandrakant Shah
Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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
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
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
Dominique Morisano
Adjunct Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Addiction and mental health services and systems research
- Goal theory and goal implementation
- Harm-reduction approach
- Implementation science and the use of evidence in treatment systems
- Mental health and wellness service-system improvements for Indigenous Peoples of Canada
- Mindfulness-based interventions
- Psychedelics-Assisted Therapies and Research
- Research and publication ethics
Office: email preferred
Email: dominique.morisano@utoronto.ca
Donald Cole
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Agriculture and health globally
- Environments
- Evaluation of workplace interventions to improve musculoskeletal health
- Food systems
- Health impacts of agricultural practices in developing world
Office: 416-946-7870
Languages: Spanish
Email: donald.cole@utoronto.ca
Erica Di Ruggiero
Director of the Office of Global Public Health Education and Training, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Chronic diseases related to food and nutrition
- Gig economy
- Global health policy
- Sustainable (global policy agenda)
- Working conditions
Office: 416-978-6066
Email: e.diruggiero@utoronto.ca
Flora Matheson
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
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: mathesonf@smh.ca
France Gagnon
Associate Professor, Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Canada Research Chair in Genetic Epidemiology
Associate Dean of Research, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0130
Languages: French
Website
Email: france.gagnon@utoronto.ca
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
Greg Evans
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Dana Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Hilary Brown
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-208-2239
Website
Email: hk.brown@utoronto.ca
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
- COVID-19 Hand sanitizer vs. hand washing
- 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
Janet Smylie
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: n/a
Email: janet.smylie@utoronto.ca
Jillian Kohler
Professor of Pharmacy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corruption
- Development and pharmaceutical intellectual property rights
- Global health
- Good governance
- Pharmaceutical industry and ethics
- Politics of health care
Office: 416-946-8708
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Email: jillian.kohler@utoronto.ca
Joanna Cohen
Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 410-614-5378
Mobile: 443-814-0169
Website
Email: jocohen@jhsph.edu
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
Kate Mulligan
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Community health and wellbeing
- Ecological public health
- Health equity
- Public health policy
- Social prescribing
Office: 416.236.2539 ext. 244
Website
Email: kate.mulligan@utoronto.ca
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
Lisa Forman
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- HIV/AIDS treatment
- Intellectual property rights
- International human rights law and health
- Trade and access to medicines
Office: 416-978-3087
Email: lisa.forman@utoronto.ca