Selection of research projects held at DLSPH in the 2018-19 grant year:
| Principal Investigator | Funder | Project Title |
| ABRAMOVICH, ALEX | SSHRC | Understanding LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness in York Region |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | CIHR | Developing Tools That Predict Use of Breast Cancer Screening and Stage at Breast Cancer Diagnosis |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | Commonwealth Fund | Health Care Delivery for High-Need, High-Cost Populations: International Perspectives on the Way Forward, Phase 2 |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | Ministry of Health and Long Term Care / CIHR | The Network for Better Access and Care for Complex Needs (BEACCON) |
| BAKER, ROSS | Canadian Patient Safety Institute | Measurement process for the Safer Healthcare Now: Assessing the impact of 6 interventions to improve patient safety in Canadian hospitals. |
| BANERJEE, ANANYA | SSHRC | Exploring the Influence of Migration on Diabetes among Sri Lankan Immigrants through an Intersectional Analytical Framework |
| BANERJEE, ANANYA | Lawson Foundation | South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP) Photovoice Exhibit |
| BAXTER, NANCY | American College of Physicians | Health services utilization after BRCA1/2 testing in Canada |
| BENOIT, ANITA | CIHR | Reducing stress and improving mental health and wellness among Indigenous women with socio-economic insecurities living with and without HIV |
| BERTA, WHITNEY | CIHR | SUSTAINMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND SPREAD STUDY (SSASSy): An Exploratory Study of Factors that Contribute to the Sustainability, Sustainment & Spread of a Complex Quality Improvement |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | CIHR | Adapting and scaling-up a Peer Navigators to targeted populations of street-involved youth in Canada and Kenya to increase linkage to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | CIHR | Evaluating a population-based HIV treatment as prevention |
| BRIOLLAIS, LAURENT | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Bayesian graphical models for the analysis of complex genetic data |
| BROOK, JEFFREY | NCE: Allergy, Genes and | Better Exposure Avoidance Measures (BEAM) |
| BROOK, JEFFREY | CIHR | CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium |
| BROOKS, JENNIFER | Connaught Fund | Evaluation of effectiveness of risk prediction models used in the High Risk Ontario Breast Screening Program |
| BROOKS, JENNIFER | CIHR | MRI parenchymal enhancement and risk of breast cancer: A population-based study of women screened in the Ontario Breast Screening Program |
| BROWN, ADALSTEINN | Connaught Fund | Journalism Training for Health Research Impact |
| BROWN, ADALSTEINN | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Centre for Evidence and Health in All Policies (CEHIAP) |
| BROWN, ADALSTEINN | Connaught Fund | The Benefits of pneumococcal vaccination for seniors: A Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases Interdisciplinary project on healthy aging and immunization science |
| BROWN, PATRICK | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Inference on spatio-temporal log Gaussian Cox processes for spatially aggregated disease incidence data |
| BUCHAN, SARAH AW | Hospital for Sick Children | Burden, cost, and development of asthma related to severe RSV infections |
| BULL, SHELLEY | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Regression Models for Data Integration in Genetics and Genomics |
| CALZAVARA, LIVIANA | CIHR – Grants | Observational evaluation of immediate antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in Shanghai, China |
| CHAITON, MICHAEL | National Institutes of Health (US) | Evaluating Canada’s Menthol Ban |
| CHIARELLI, ANNA | Research and Innovation (ON), Min | Personalized Risk Assessment for Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Integration and Implementation (PERSPECTIVE II) |
| DEMERS, PAUL | WorkSafe BC | Mesothelioma Epidemiology and Prognosis |
| DI RUGGIERO, ERICA | Community Foundations of Canada | The Statistical Alliance for Vital Events (SAVE) Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholars Program (SAVE-QES) |
| DI RUGGIERO, ERICA | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Public Health Training for Equitable and Transformative Systems Change |
| DU MONT, JANICE | Social Sciences & Humanities | Building an Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors |
| FISMAN, DAVID | CIHR – Grants | An Online Platform for Expanding Antibiotic Stewardship: OPEN Stewardship |
| GAGNON, FRANCE | CIHR – Grants | Sex differences in the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism: testing an epigenetic hypothesis |
| GAGNON, FRANCE | CIHR – Grants | Sex-specific DNA methylation marks in VKORC1 and UBIAD1 as variables in clinical decision rules for recurrent VTE |
| GAGNON, FRANCE | McLaughlin Centre | A Unified Polygenic Risk Score Analytics Platform for Risk Prediction, Causal Inference and Discovery |
| GIBSON, JENNIFER | CIHR – Grants | Planning for Equitable AI in Public Health Research Practice |
| GIGNAC, MONIQUE | Social Sciences & Humanities / CIHR | 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 |
| GIGNAC, MONIQUE | Social Sciences & Humanities | Conceal or Reveal: Facilitators and Barriers to Older Workers’ Communication of Accommodation Needs in the Workplace and its Relationship to Work Outcomes |
| GRACE, DANIEL | Research and Innovation (ON), Min | Learning from the experiences of Canada’s first wave of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users: An investigation of Ontario gay men’s experiences using new HIV prevention technology |
| HOLNESS, LINN | Labour (ON), Min of | Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease |
| KUSTRA, RAFAL | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Computational and Inferential Tools for Machine Learning Methods in Biostatistical Research |
| MARCHILDON, GREGORY | Alzheimer Society of Canada / CIHR | Comparative Policy Analysis of Programs to Support People with Dementia and Co-Existing Complex Needs and their Caregivers |
| MASHFORD-PRINGLE, ANGELA | Social Sciences & Humanities | Building across Turtle Island: Creating a Community of Practice and Graduate Student Journal for Indigenous Health |
| MASHFORD-PRINGLE, ANGELA | Connaught Fund | Mamwi Gidaanjitoomin (Together, We Change It) Project |
| MCLAUGHLIN, JOHN | Cdn Partnership Against Cancer Corp | Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project |
| MILLER, FIONA | CIHR – Grants | Blockbuster Diagnostics? The political economy of diagnostic innovation in comparative perspective |
| PULLENAYEGUM, ELEANOR | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Statistical Methods for Irregularly Measured Longitudinal Statistical Methods for Irregularly Measured Longitudinal Data |
| ROSELLA, LAURA | CIHR – Grants | Planning tools to inform interventions to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and premature mortality in Canadian cities |
| ROSELLA, LAURA | Tri-Agency Institutional Program | Deep Learning Frameworks for Chronic Diseases in the Population |
| ROSELLA, LAURA | CIHR – Grants | Population health analytics in action: Improving impact, sustainability & equity of the health care system |
| ROSELLA, LAURA | CIHR – Grants | Enabling Equity and AI: Population Level AI and Data Science Infrastructure |
| ROSELLA, LAURA | Connaught Fund | Beyond prediction: Building a global network to unlock the potential of advanced analytics and population risk tools to address complex health system challenges |
| ROSS, LORI | Public Health Agency of Canada | An intervention to enhance the capacity of providers working in trauma services to respond to the needs of LGBTQ2+ clients |
| ROSS, LORI | Social Sciences & Humanities | Inclusion or illusion? A qualitative, participatory study of the experiences of peer researchers |
| SAARELA, OLLI | Connaught Fund | Causal Mediation Analysis Methods for Evaluating Health Care Provider Performance |
| SAARELA, OLLI | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Towards more dynamic modeling of high-dimensional register-based data |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN | Physicians’ Services Inc. Foundatio | The Ontario Program To Improve AntiMIcrobial USE (OPTIMISE): Building the Foundation for a Community Stewardship Program |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Health Canada | Study of Cigarette Price Segmentation in the Canadian Market |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Social Sciences & Humanities | Strategies to Alleviate Social Problem: From Symbols to Reality |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | PARN(Peterborough AIDS Resource Net | Measuring Food Literacy |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Research on Advancing Cessation Treatment (RE:ACT) |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Research on electronic cigarettes and water pipes (RECIG2-WP) |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU) Transition 2018/19 |
| SCOTT, JEREMY | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Impact of environmental air pollution on arginine metabolism in the lung |
| SELLEN, DANIEL | International Development Research | IDRC Evaluation: Food, Environment, and Health Program Evaluation 2015-2020 |
| SETO, EMILY | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Development of expert systems for complex chronic health conditions |
| SETO, EMILY | CIHR – Grants | Development of a telemonitoring app for management of patients with multiple chronic conditions within an integrated care model |
| SHEPPARD, AMANDA | CIHR – Grants | Link, monitor, strategize: First Nations, Inuit, Métis peoples’ cancer burden in Canada |
| SIDDIQI, ARJUMAND | CIHR – Grants | Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Opioid-Related Health Inequities |
| SMYLIE, JANET | Merck Canada Inc(f/Merck Frosst Can | Kind Faces, Sharing Places: A Multi-Component Demonstration Project Addressing Underlying Causes of Indigenous Maternal and Infant Morbidity and Mortality in Ontario |
| STAFFORD, JAMES | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Local-EM, spatial-temporal modeling and mismeasured data |
| STEWART, SUZANNE | Social Sciences & Humanities | Breaking Bad: Challenging Aboriginal Employment Policy Using Aboriginal Knowledges |
| STRIKE, CAROL | Social Sciences & Humanities | Advancing research integrity in HIV social science research |
| STRIKE, CAROL | CIHR – Grants | Day Health Programs for complex care delivery: Using implementation science and participatory methods to evaluate success and ethical care delivery |
| STRIKE, CAROL | CIHR – Grants | Looking back to look ahead at the CAHR Strategic Plan 2019-2024 |
| STRUG, LISA | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Development of Evidential Methodology for Analysis of Genetic Data |
| SUN, LEI | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Statistical methods for complex gtenetic data |
| TRBOVICH, PATRICIA | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Designing Tools to Support Cognitive Decision Making Under Uncertainty |
| TRBOVICH, PATRICIA | Hospital for Sick Children | Embedding Human Factors in Critical Care |
| UPSHUR, ROSS | Health Canada | Air Quality Health Index in Primary Care: A Feasibility Study |
| WEBSTER, FIONA | CIHR – Awards | CIHR New Investigator Award-Finding the complex patient in patient-centred care: an institutional ethnography of chronic pain management in family medicine |
| WEI, XIAOLIN | Stop TB Reach Partnership | Improving drug-sensitive TB patients’ treatment adherence through cloud based e-monitors and video observed treatment in Tibet |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Ontario SPOR Support Unit | Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN). |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | Health System Performance Research Network |
| XU, WEI | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Methodology Development and Implementation for Microbiome Sequencing Data: Hierarchical Modeling on Clustered Taxa |