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
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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 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
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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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
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
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Brian Schwartz
Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, 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
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
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
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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
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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 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
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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
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Earl Nowgesic
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: 416-978-7530
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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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
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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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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
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Janet Smylie
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Children and their families
- Health programs for Indigenous infants
- Indigenous Health Measurement and Measurement Systems
- Indigenous Knowledge Translation
Office: n/a
Email: janet.smylie@utoronto.ca
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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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