Faculty Member
Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco
- Email Address(es)
- francisco.ibanez.carrasco(at)utoronto.ca
- Office Phone
- 4166680849
- Curriculum Vitae
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- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate (Restricted) Member
- Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
- No
Research Interests
- Health research with “patients” as “peer researchers”.
- Cognitive and physical maintenance for people ageing with chronic episodic medical conditions such as mood disorders, HIV and MS.
- Participatory knowledge mobilization of research evidence and “lived experience” for all audiences
- AI, hybrid, blended, flipped, digitized, mobile learning for all!
Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco PhD (He/Him).
🗓️ Click here to make an appointment with me!
What I Teach
- (Winter 2026) CHL7001H – Theory and Practice of Social Justice in Community-Based Research in Public Health (Click for Syllabus) A radical, justice-driven graduate seminar where students co-design, co-analyze, and mobilize knowledge with communities using participatory, decolonial, digital, and arts-based methods to transform public health research and practice.
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Health Promotion 1 – September 2025.
- CHL5807H: Health Communications where we learn communications theory on how individual, organizational and structural health messages are crafted, shared, and sometimes twisted—across media, AI, culture, and communities—to inform, persuade, and connect in today’s wildly complex world. Students work with NGO community mentors, check what they do clicking below
- 🎯 Check what students did in 2025!
- 🎯 Check what students did in 2024!
- 🎯 Check what students did in 2023!
I’m a Latino-Canadian, queer, and proudly living with HIV since 1986. Since 1989, I am in the HIV movement in Canada — facilitating, teaching, researching, organizing, and writing the good, the bad, and the gloriously complicated story of AIDS in Canada.
As a community-based researcher, my work lives at the intersection of patient-oriented research, Knowledge Mobilization (Click to check biblio here), and digital learning innovations. I’m all about making knowledge move — into community, policy, and practice — using every medium, every platform, and every spark of creativity we’ve got.
Honoured to have received the King Charles III Coronation Medal (2025), CAHR Red Ribbon Award (2017), and the Realize‘s Elisse Zack Award (2011) for my work in HIV research and community health.
Stuff we can do together
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🧠 Co-Leading community-based research such as our current CIHR-funded study on living with HIV and chronic pain.
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✨ SHINE-ADI: A research summary on how medical advancements have made diseases manageable — but older adults and people with disabilities still face major barriers to sexual and reproductive health.
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🎙️ Speaking personally about learning online and media — published in The American Journal of Distance Education.
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🎥 Audiovisual report on post-COVID19 learning, teaching, and evaluation at DLSPH.
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🌐 Member of The Canada-International HIV and Rehabilitation Research Collaborative (CIHRRC).
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Member of the CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Advisory Committee (CHASRAC) which provides expert guidance to CIHR on the strategic direction, priorities, and implementation of HIV/AIDS and STBBI research in Canada, ensuring it reflects scientific excellence, community needs, and equity across affected populations.