Selection of research projects held at DLSPH in 2026:
| Lead Researcher | Grant Sponsor | Project |
| Aaron Orkin | CIHR – Grants | Evaluating delivery of priority public health interventions to people experiencing homelessness in Toronto by peer workers |
| Abi Sriharan | CIHR – Grants | Why They Persist in Health Workforce: A Mixed Method Study to Characterize and Examine the Experiences of Women |
| Adalsteinn Brown | Connaught Fund | The Benefits of pneumococcal vaccination for seniors: A Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases Interdisciplinary project on healthy aging and immunization science |
| Alex Abramovich | CIHR – Grants | Adapting and scaling-up “Peer Navigators” to targeted populations of street-involved youth in Canada and Kenya to increase linkage to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. |
| Alexander Hoagland | The Commonwealth Fund | Advocating for Prevention: The Health Equity Implications of Billing Errors in Preventive Medicine |
| Amaya Perez-Brumer | Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Estamos Aquí (We are here): Creative-relational inquiry into spaces of belonging to support migrant sex workers thriving in Colombia and Peru |
| Amy McPherson | Social Sciences & Humanities | We Are Sexual Too: A Partnership to Support the Intimate Citizenship of Disabled Youth Across Canada by Mobilizing Knowledge About Sexuality and Disability |
| Ananya Banerjee | Lawson Foundation | South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP) |
| Angela Mashford-Pringle | Connaught Fund | Rivers of Plenty: Enabling Heart Healthy Eating in James and Hudson’s Bay |
| Anna Louise Heath | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Innovative Methods for Research and Trial Design using Value of Information |
| Anna Maria Chiarelli | Ministry of Research and Innovation (ON) | Personalized Risk Assessment for Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Integration and Implementation (PERSPECTIVE II) |
| Arif Jetha | Social Sciences & Humanities | Intelligent machines and human worker inequities: Examining the implications of artificial intelligence in the workplace |
| Arjumand Siddiqi | CIHR – Grants | Adapting and scaling-up ‘Peer Navigators’ to targeted populations of street-involved youth in Canada and Kenya to increase linkage to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. |
| Audrey Laporte | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | How Unequal is Health Status Across Race/Ethnic Groups in Canada? Using Census-Linked Mortality Data to Answer the Government’s Call for Rigorous Evidence |
| Beverley Essue | CIHR – Grants | Childhood Cancer in Nepal: Evaluating Quality, Health System Readiness and Equity Through a Prospective Cohort Study (DECAN-CHILD) |
| Billie Hardy | Tri-Agency Institutional Program Se | Creating Ethical Space for Mi’kmaq Led Genetic, Epigenetic, and Other Biological Research in Nova Scotia |
| Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi | Ministry of Research and Innovation (ON) | Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Traffic Safety through innovative data methodologies |
| Camellia Zakaria | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Integrative Statistical Modelling in Genetics and Genomics |
| Carol Strike | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | Black Carbon Estimation via Ubiquitous Sensors and Multimodal Deep Learning Techniques |
| Celia Laur | Social Sciences & Humanities | Matched Funding in Research: Exploring the role of the matched funding requirement in sustaining research impact and long-term partnerships |
| Claire de Oliveira | MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) | Accelerating Research Integration in Clinical Practice at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care |
| Cynthia Jackevicius | CIHR – Grants | A Population-Based Analysis of the Adverse Effects and Adherence of Novel Diabetes Therapy in Older Persons with Cardiovascular Disease |
| D Linn Holness | Ministry of Labour (ON) | Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease |
| Daniel Grace | Connaught Fund | Two-Spirited Burnout: Personal Narratives of Two-Spirited People Impacted by HIV |
| David Fisman | CIHR – Grants | One Health In Action: Linking Human and Animal Data Sources to Understand and Prevent Enteric Disease in Ontario |
| Dionne Gesink | CIHR – Grants | Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) In Suburban Cities |
| Eleanor Pullenayegum | MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) | Health Utilities to Inform Cancer Drug Funding Decisions |
| Emily Seto | CIHR – Grants | Development of a telemonitoring app for management of patients with multiple chronic conditions within an integrated care model |
| Erica Marie Christine Di Ruggiero | CIHR – Grants | Enhancing Public Health System Governance through Leadership Competencies |
| Erjia Ge | CIHR – Grants | Activation, recurrence, and mortality: Exploring impacts of air pollution and greenness on progressions of latent and active tuberculosis to inform interventions |
| Fiona Miller | Environment Canada | Project CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) |
| Flora Matheson | CIHR – Grants | Self-management in the age of complexity: An eHealth tool to support people experiencing problem gambling, poverty & homelessness |
| France Gagnon | CIHR – Grants | Sex-specific DNA methylation marks in VKORC1 and UBIAD1 as variables in clinical decision rules for recurrent VTE |
| Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco | Hospital for Sick Children | Living with HIV and chronic pain in Canada: a community-based, mixed-methods, multi-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and intersectional study |
| G. Ross Baker | CIHR – Grants | Ontario Health Team Impact Fellowship Program (211704) |
| Geoff Anderson | CIHR – Grants | Prediction of Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Diagnosed with Early Stage Breast Cancer |
| Gregory Marchildon | CIHR – Grants | Comparative Policy Analysis of Programs to Support People with Dementia and Co-Existing Complex Needs and their Caregivers |
| Ibukun Abejirinde | MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) | Implementation and Evaluation of a Digital Wound Care Solution: Implications for Adoption and Impact on the Quintuple Aim |
| Isha Berry | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | Meningococcal Meningitis: Epidemiology for the African Meningitis Belt |
| James Scott | Ministry of Research and Innovation (ON) | Increasing Testing Capacity for Critical Respiratory PPE in Ontario for the Current COVID Pandemic and Beyond: Budget Request and Description of Warranted Testing Procedures |
| Janice Arlene Du Mont | Social Sciences & Humanities | Mobilizing Partnerships to Advance a Provincial Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors – the trans-LINK Project |
| Jeff Kwong | CIHR – Grants | Estimation of health and economic burden of blood-borne infections |
| Jeffrey Brook | Public Health Agency of Canada | Equity – Built Environment Surveillance Tools (E-Best) |
| Jennifer Brooks | Public Health Agency of Canada | Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care: a PHAC/CanPath research collaboration |
| Jeremy Scott | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Impact of environmental air pollution on arginine metabolism in the lung |
| John Ross McLaughlin | National Institutes of Health (US) | Prenatal and childhood exposure to fluoride and neurodevelopment |
| Jude Dzevela Kong | International Development Research | AI Solutions for One Health Approaches to Epidemic and Pandemic Prevention and Response: Scale, Inclusion and Impact |
| Kate Mulligan | CIHR – Grants | Coproduction in social prescribing: understanding the role of communities and participants in the transfer of social prescribing from England to three Canadian provinces |
| Kelly Michelle Smith | MedStar Health Research Institute | The Patient Partnered Diagnostic Center of Excellence |
| Kerry Kuluski Kuluski | Veterans Affairs Canada | Identity Transformation from Military Service to Civilian Life: A Narrative Inquiry |
| Kevin Schwartz | Physicians’ Services Inc. Foundation | The Ontario Program To Improve AntiMIcrobial USE (OPTIMISE): Building the Foundation for a Community Stewardship Program |
| Laura Rosella | Public Health Ontario | Increasing the Impact of Indicators |
| Laurent Briollais | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Development of Bayesian Approaches for Next Generation Genetic and Genomic Data |
| Leif Erik Lovblom | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Deriving and evaluating realistic statistical models for real-time clinical prediction of diabetes complications |
| Lisa Forman | Connaught Fund | Advancing rights-based access to COVID-19 vaccines as part of universal health coverage |
| Lori Elizabeth Ross | Connaught Fund | Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) Ontarians’ experiences with social assistance: Conducting preliminary research to nurture partnerships in the area of 2SLGBTQ+ poverty and health |
| Mark Dobrow | CIHR – Grants | Health System Learning from Knowledges and Evidence Held Within Indigenous Communities |
| Melanie Powis | Canadian Cancer Society | Collaborative Co-Design of a Black Patient Navigator Role to Support Patients Undergoing Treatment for Breast Cancer |
| Michael Chaiton | National Institutes of Health (US) | Evaluating Canada’s Menthol Ban |
| Michael Escobar | National Institutes of Health (US) | Machine learning to inform health services and policy for traumatic brain injury |
| Michelle Firestone | Connaught Fund | Community voice and leadership from within institutionalized care models: lessons from COVID-19 |
| Monica Aggarwal | CIHR – Grants | Primary Care-Led Governance Models: A Comparative Policy Analysis of three Canadian Jurisdictions |
| Monique Gignac | CIHR – Grants | Accommodating and Communicating about Episodic Disabilities (ACED): A Partnership to Deliver Workplace Tools and Resources to Sustain the Employment of People with Chronic, Episodic Conditions |
| Nathan DeBono | CIHR – Grants | Urinary Phthalate Biomarker Concentrations and Breast and Prostate Cancer Risk in a National Cohort of Adults in Canada (230486) |
| Olli Samuli Saarela | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Causal mediation analysis methods for polytomous, functional and high-dimensional data |
| Pamela Kaufman | CIHR – Grants | Enabling the monitoring and advancement of knowledge on exposure to cannabis use. |
| Patricia L Trbovich | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Developing Performance Models to Enhance Safety in High-Risk Environments through Predictive Analysis of Incident Factors |
| Paula Braitstein | CIHR – Grants | Identification, adaptation and piloting of innovative interventions to engage street-connected children and youth in the HIV prevention-care continuum in a resource-constrained setting |
| Peter Juni | Innovation, Science & Economic Development | CanCOVID Network |
| Philip Awadalla | Public Health Agency of Canada | Surveying Prospective Population Cohorts for COVID19 pRevalence and Outcomes in Canada (SUPPORT-Canada) |
| Prabhat Jha | Connaught Fund | Connaught Global Challenge-Global Mortality Data Divide |
| Quynh Pham | Ontario Centre of Innovation (f/OCE) | Evaluating Smartphone-Based Physiological Assessment for Health and Chronic Illness Pathways in Ontario |
| Robert Schwartz | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | CTRAC: Commercial Tobacco Reduction in Aboriginal Communities |
| Sahr Wali | CIHR – Awards | Bridging our worldviews: Using reflexive innovation strategies to transform culturally safe cardiovascular care with underserved communities in Ontario |
| Sara Allin | CIHR – Grants | Establishing a platform to monitor the performance of public health systems across Canada |
| Sarah Edwards | NCE: Making the Shift (MtS) Network | Sharing Our Stories: Pathways into and out of homelessness for Métis Nation Youth in Living Ontario |
| Sarah Elton | Social Sciences & Humanities | Reimagining Resistance: A multi-disciplinary approach to human-animal-environmental relations and antimicrobial resistance in the dairy industry |
| Shelley Bull | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Integrative Statistical Modelling in Genetics and Genomics |
| Shelly Bolotin | CIHR – Grants | Is Ontario Prepared for the Return of Measles? |
| Susan Bondy | University of British Columbia | An integrated online approach to mental health and substance use among university students |
| Susan Law | Public Health Agency of Canada | CanCOVID Sentinel Intelligence: SITE Initiative |
| Susan Tarlo | Workplace Safety and Insurance | Occupational exposure to vapours, gases, dusts and fumes and the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| Suzanne Stewart | CIHR – Grants | Indigenous youth and mental health: Indigenous knowledges solutions for personal and community healing and the climate crisis |
| Tatyana Mollayeva | MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) | Oculomotor function in adults with concussion: A synthesis of evidence and clinical trial |
| Victoria Arrandale | TIPS: Canada First Res Excellence Fu | Ethical Nail Salons: A community-governed and SDL-facilitated approach to mitigate occupational chemical hazards in nail salons |
| Victoria Kirsh | Cancer Care Ontario | The Canadian Study of Diet, Lifestyle, and Health |
| Walter Wodchis | Health Quality Ontario (HQO) | Home and Community Based Patient and Caregiver Experience Surveys |
| Wei Xu | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Methodology Development and Implementation for Microbiome Sequencing Data: Hierarchical Modeling on Clustered Taxa Counts with Repeated Measures |
| Whitney Berta | Connaught Fund | Future of Work in the Health Sector in the Age of Intelligent Machines and Technologies (FORESIGHT) |
| Xiaolin Wei | Stop TB Reach Partnership | Improving drug-sensitive TB patients’ treatment adherence through cloud based e-monitors and video observed treatment in Tibet |
| Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Multimodal Foundation Models for Responsive and Responsible Behavior Modeling in Digital Health Interventions |