Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Carmen Logie
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity & Social Justice with Marginalized Populations
Adjunct Professor, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment & Health
Adjunct Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Global health
- HIV
- Monkeypox stigma
- Refugee and displaced persons
- Sexual health and rights
- Stigma and discrimination
Office: 416-946-3365
Website
Email: carmen.logie@utoronto.ca
Charmaine Williams
Interim Dean
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism
- Diversity
- Equity
- Family caregiving
- Inclusion
- LGBTQ mental health
- Mental health of Black Canadians
- Mental health services
Office: 416-978-3255
Website
Email: charmaine.williams@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
David Brennan
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Director, CRUISElab
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Aging and HIV
- Childhood sexual abuse and its subsequent health effects among men
- Eating disorders and body image among men
- Gay and bisexual men
- Health and mental health for LGBT people
- Health disparities for LGBT people
- HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men
- HPV vaccination for boys
- LGBTQAI+ issues
- LGBTQIA+ health
- LGBTQIA+ human rights
- LGBTQIA+ mental health
- Mental and sexual health of gay and bisexual men
- Physical
Office: 416-978-3273
Mobile: 416-910-8911
Website
Email: david.brennan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Burnes
Associate Professor, Specialization in Gerontology, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Ageism
- Elder abuse
- Elder financial exploitation
- Elder mistreatment
- Resident-to-resident aggression in nursing homes or long-term care settings
Office: 416-978-5718
Mobile: 416-258-6523
Website
Email: david.burnes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Hulchanski
Professor, Housing and Community Development, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; cross-appointed with Geography and Planning, and Urban Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Affordable housing
- Community development
- Gentrification
- Income inequality
- Neighbourhoods
- Private rental sector
- Social policy
- Subsidized housing
Office: 416-978-1973
Mobile: 416-509-5806
Website
Email: david.hulchanski@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dexter R. Voisin
Professor (Status-only)
Areas of Expertise
- Gangs
- Gun control
- Historical and present day connections to police brutality towards the black community
- Mass shootings
- Mental health
- Psychology of racism in America and structural violence
- Racial inequality
- Racialized populations
- STI/HIV prevention
- Structural and neighbourhood violence
Office: 416-978-0100
Email: media.relations@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Esme Fuller-Thomson
Professor & Director, Institute of Life Course & Aging
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Grandparents raising grandchildren
- Immigrant and refugee health
- Long-term health consequences of childhood abuse
- Socioeconomic gradient in disability rates
Office: 416-978-3269
Home: 416-760-8176
Mobile: 416-209-3231
Website
Email: esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Faye Mishna
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-3255
Mobile: 416-910-1385
Email: f.mishna@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Izumi Sakamoto
Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-Asian racism
- Asian Canadian identities & model minority myth
- Canadian experience (immigrant employment discrimination)
- Community-based; participatory; arts-based research
- Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy
- Critical international social work
- Critical tacit knowledge
- Homelessness and diversity
- Immigrants and refugees
- Integration and cultural adaptation of immigrants
- Japanese Canadian identities; arts; activism & communities
- Multicultural and anti-oppressive social work
- Qualitative research
- Skilled immigrants and employment barrier (Canadian experience)
Office: 416-946-8224
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ka Tat Tsang
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- Development of social work in China
- Ethnicity
- identity
- Immigration and settlement issues
- Learning interpersonal and social skills
- Mental health
- Psychotherapy and counseling
- Sexuality
Office: 416-978-5817
Languages: Chinese, English
Email: k.tsang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kyle Ganson
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Adolescent and young adult mental health
- Eating disorders and body image
- High risk behaviours (e.g.: suicide; substance use)
- Men's and boys' mental health
- Muscle-building behaviours
Office: 416-978-6394
Mobile: 774-279-0009
Website
Email: kyle.ganson@utoronto.ca
Laura Tamblyn Watts
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- advance care planning
- domestic violence in later life
- elder abuse and neglect
- elder law
- elder mediation
- financial elder abuse
- guardianship
- legislative drafting
- police and professional training on law and aging issues
- substitute decision-making
- supported decision-making
Office: 647-969-6793
Languages: Some French
Email: lauratamblyn.watts@mail.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Saini
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Access to justice
- Child custody disputes
- Child welfare
- Children and the courts
- Divorce
- Family law
- High conflict families
Office: 416-946-5027
Mobile: 416-420-0097
Email: michael.saini@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Newman
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Gay and lesbian youth (bullying and stigma)
- Gay men and other men who have sex with men
- HIV prevention
- HIV prevention trials/HIV clinical trial participation
- HIV/AIDS in the developing world
- HPV vaccines
- LGBTQ
- New HIV prevention technologies
Office: email preferred
Mobile: 416-566-3455
Website
Email: p.newman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Rupaleem Bhuyan
Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Gender issues in immigration policy
- Gender violence and migration
- Precarious migration
- Undocumented immigrants and abuse
- Violence against women
Office: 416-910-8205
Website
Email: r.bhuyan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Tanya L. Sharpe
Associate Professor
Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Community
Founder & Director, The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB)
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-0218
Mobile: (437)-343-8422
Website
Email: tanya.sharpe@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Toula Kourgiantakis
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Social Worker and Family Therapist
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical social work practice
- Health care access privilege or marginalization
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Prevention treatment and support of youth health
- Social work
Office: 416-978-4176
Languages: French
Website
Email: toula.kourgiantakis@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online