Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Margaret MacNeill
Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Associate Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athletes' rights and relationships with the media
- Critical policy studies of public health
- Gender
- Health and physical literacy
- Health communication
- Interprofessional education and wellness studies
- Olympic media studies
- Olympic television production ethnographies
- Physical cultural studies of sport and fitness
- Race and active healthy living
Office: 416-978-0598
Email: margaret.macneill@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Atkinson
Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Cross-Appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Illness; pain and suffering
- Invisible disabilities (epilepsy; insomnia; anxiety)
- Masculinity studies
- Qualitative research
- Sport and violence
Office: 416-978-7205
Email: michael.atkinson@utoronto.ca
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Michael Widener
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency medical services transportation
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
- Urban planning and health
Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Cities
- Environmental destruction & contamination
- Human exposure
- Impact of war on environmental pollution
- Indoor environment
- Infrastructure damage & long-term health impacts
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
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Muhammad Mamdani
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Drug Utilization and Outcomes Research
- Epidemiology
- Health economics
- Translating Research into Clinical Practice
Office: 416-866-3028
Mobile: 416-434-2520
Email: muhammad.mamdani@unityhealth.to
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Nigel Turner
Assistant Professor (status only)

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-535-8501 x 36063
Email: Nigel.Turner@camh.ca
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Peter Selby
Giblon Professor, Vice Chair Research (interim), Clinician Scientist DFCM, Psychiatry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-535-8501, ext. 36859
Email: peter.selby@utoronto.ca
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Quynh Pham
Assistant Professor and Faculty Lead, Health Informatics Research

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: q.pham@utoronto.ca
Raisa Deber
Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian health policy
- Health care financing
- Health care home and community care
- Health human resources
- Medical decision-making
- Public/private mix
Office: 416-978-8366
Email: raisa.deber@utoronto.ca
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Ross Upshur
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Philosophy of medicine and public health
- Practice and policy
- Primary care research
- Public health ethics (communicable diseases)
Office: 416-978-4756
Mobile: 416-357-0663
Email: ross.upshur@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Cross-appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; History Department
Affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research; Visiting Faculty, Economics, Yale University
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th century labor history in the U.S.
- Canadian economic history
- Cash transfer programs
- Intergenerational mobility and inequality
- Pension systems
- Research using family trees (genealogy)
- U.S. social welfare history
- Universal basic income
- Welfare
Office: 416-946-7630
Mobile: 437-239-1159
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
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Stephen Hwang
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-864-5991
Mobile: 647-388-3208
Website
Email: hwangs@smh.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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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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Susan Tarlo
Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-603-5177
Email: susan.tarlo@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Jackson
Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community-engaged evaluation and research
- Health promotion
- Healthy communities/healthy settings
- Mental health promotion
Office: N/A
Email: suzanne.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Sicchia
Associate Professor Teaching

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Suzanne Stewart
Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 828-4715
Email: Suzanne.Stewart@utoronto.ca
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Trudo Lemmens
Professor, Faculty of Law
Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Commercialization of medical research
- Conflict of interest in medicine
- End-of-life law– Medical Assistance in Dying
- Ethical issues of genetic and medical technologies
- Health and Human Rights
- Health law and policy
- Opioid crisis
- Pharmaceutical Law and Governance
- Regulation of research
- Regulation of the Health Professions
Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages: French, Dutch
Email: trudo.lemmens@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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Winston Husbands
Associate Professor, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-988-1725
Website
Email: winston.husbands@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online
Xiaolin Wei
Professor, Division of Clinical Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Antibiotic resistance
- Diabetes
- Health outcome evaluations
- Primary care
- Public health consultant
- Screening in airports
- Tuberculosis
Office: 416-978-2020
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca
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Zulfiqar Bhutta
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Division of Epidemiology

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-813-7654 ext 328915
Languages: Urdu
Website
Email: daina.als@sickkids.ca
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