Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Daniel Grace MA, PhD

Research Interests

• Social and Structural Determinants of Health
• Qualitative Research Methods and Mixed Methods Research
• Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality and Health
• HIV and STI Prevention, Intervention and Health Communication
• Implementation Science
• Gay, Bisexual and Queer Men’s Health (Social, Sexual, Mental and Physical)
• Sexual Minority and Gender Diverse Populations
• 2S/LGBTQ+ Communities
• Social and Behavioural aspects of HIV and STI Transmission
• Institutional Ethnography
• Intersectionality
• Critical Social Theory
• Social Inequality, Marginalized Populations, and Health Outcomes
• Local Alcohol Policy and Evaluation of Complex Interventions
• Legislative Reform and Global Health

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

CHL5101: Social and Behavioural Theory and Health

Representative Publications

Sinno, J., Perez-Brumer, A., Shuper, P.A., Grace, D. (2025). Depathologizing Queer Adults’ Dating App Use in Canada: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27: e72452.

Grace, D., Daroya, E., Gaspar, M., Wells, A., Hull, M., Lachowsky, N., Tan, D.H.S. (2023). Gay, bisexual, and queer men’s confidence in the “Undetectable equals Untransmittable” (U=U) HIV prevention message: a longitudinal qualitative analysis of the sexual decision-making of PrEP users over time. Sexual Health, 20(3): 223-231.

Grace, D., Gaspar, M., Wells, A., Sinno, J., Daroya, E., Montess, M., Hull, M., Lachowsky, N., Tan, D.H.S. (2023). Injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: Perspectives on the benefits and barriers from gay, bisexual, and queer men and health system stakeholders in Ontario, Canada. AIDS Patient Care & STDs, 37(6): 306-315.

Grace, D., Daroya, E., Gaspar, M., Wells, A., Hull, M., Lachowsky, N., Tan, D.H.S. (2023). Gay, bisexual, and queer men’s confidence in the “Undetectable equals Untransmittable” (U=U) HIV prevention message: a longitudinal qualitative analysis of the sexual decision-making of PrEP users over time. Sexual Health, 20(3): 223-231.

Daroya, E., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Grey, C., Lessard, D., Klassen, B., Jollimore, J., Lachowsky, N.J., Moore, D., Sang, J., Lambert, G., Trevor A. Hart, T.A., Cox, J., Tan, D.H.S., Grace, D. (2023). “I did not have sex outside of our bubble”: Risk Reduction Strategies and Changes in Sexual Practices among Gay, Bisexual, and Queer men in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 25(9): 1147-1163.

Gaspar, M., Marshall, Z., Adam, B.D., Brennan, D.J., Cox, J., Lachowsky, N., Lambert, G., Moore, D., Hart, T.A., Grace, D. (2022). ‘I was just doing what a normal gay man would do, right?’: The biopolitics of substance use and the mental health of sexual minority men. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 26(5): 643-662.

Grace, D., Stewart, M., Blaque, E., Ryu, H., Anand, P., Gaspar, M., Worthington, C., Gilbert, M. (2022). Challenges to Communicating the Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) HIV prevention message: Healthcare Provider Perspectives. PLOS ONE. 17(7): e0271607.

Gaspar, M., Wells, A., Hull, M., Tan, D.H.S., Lachowsky, N., Grace, D. (2022). ‘What other choices might I have made?’: Sexual Minority Men, the PrEP Cascade and the New Subjective Dimensions of HIV Risk. Qualitative Health Research. 32(8-9):1315-1327.

 Grace, D., Nath, R., Parry, R., Connell, J., Wong, J., Grennan, T. (2021). ‘…if U equals U what does the second U mean?’: Sexual minority men’s accounts of HIV undetectability and untransmittable scepticism. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 9: 1270-1286.

Gaspar, M. Adam, B, Marshall, Z., Hart, T., Grace, D. (2021). Mental health and structural harm: a qualitative study of sexual minority men’s experiences of mental healthcare in Toronto, Canada. Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 23(1), 98-114.

Grace, D., Gaspar, M., Klassen, B., Lessard, D., Brennan, D.J., Lachowsky, N., Adam, B.D., Cox, J., Lambert, G., Anand, P., Jollimore, J., Moore, D., Hart, T.A. (2020). It’s in me to give: Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men’s willingness to donate blood if eligible despite feelings of policy discrimination. Qualitative Health Research, 30(14): 2234-2247.

Grace, D., Gaspar, M., Rosenes, R., Grewal, R., Burchell, A.N., Grennan, T., Salit, I. (2020). Economic barriers, evidentiary gaps, and ethical conundrums: A qualitative study of physicians’ challenges recommending HPV vaccination to older gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. International Journal for Equity in Health, 18(159), 1-9.

Grace, D. Gaspar, M., Lessard, D., Klassen, B., Brennan, D.J., Adam, B., Jollimore, J., Lachowsky, N., Hart, T.A. (2019). Gay and bisexual men’s views on reforming blood donation policy in Canada: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 19: 772. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7123-4

Grace, D., Gaspar, M., Paquette, R., Rosenes, R., Burchell, A.N., Grennan, T., Salit, I.E. (2018). HIV-positive gay men’s knowledge and perceptions of human papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV vaccination: A qualitative study. PLOS One, 13(11): e0207953.

Grace, D., Jollimore, J., MacPherson, P., Strang, M., Tan, D. (2018). The pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-stigma paradox: Learning from Canada’s first wave of PrEP users. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 32(1): 24-30.

Grace, D., Steinberg, M., Chown, S., Jollimore, J., Parry, R., Gilbert, M. (2016). “…it’s almost therapeutic, right? Because it’s almost like that session that I never had”: gay men’s accounts of being a participant in HIV research. AIDS Care, 28(10): 1306-11.

Grace, D., Egan, M., Lock, K. (2016). Examining local processes when applying a cumulative impact policy to address the harms of alcohol outlet density. Health & Place, 40(1): 76-82.

Grace, D. (2015). Criminalizing HIV transmission using model law: Troubling “best practice” standardizations in the global HIV/AIDS response. Critical Public Health, 25(4): 441–454.

Grace, D., Chown, S., Kwag, M., Steinberg, M., Lim, E., and Gilbert, M. (2015). Becoming ‘undetectable’: Longitudinal narratives of gay men’s sex lives after a recent HIV diagnosis. AIDS Education & Prevention, 27(4): 333-349.

Grace, D., Chown, S., Jollimore, J., Parry, R., Kwag, M., Steinberg, M., Trussler, T., Rekart, M., and Gilbert, M. (2014). HIV-negative gay men’s accounts of using context-dependent seroadaptive strategies. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 16(3): 316–330. 

Grace, D. (2013). Transnational Institutional Ethnography: Tracing text and talk beyond state boundaries. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 12: 587-605.