Selection of research projects held at DLSPH in the 2020-21 grant year:
Preparedness for Practice and Practice Choices: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Early Career Family Physicians in Canada
Broad and deep longitudinal Analysis in Neurodegenerative disease (BRAIN)
Ontario Health Team Impact Fellowship Program
Principal Investigator | Funder | Project Title |
AGGARWAL, MONICA | College of Family Physicians of Canada | Preparedness for Practice and Practice Choices: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Early Career Family Physicians in Canada |
ANDERSON, GEOFF | CCNA – CIHR | Broad and deep longitudinal Analysis in Neurodegenerative disease (BRAIN) |
ANDIAPPAN, MEENA | SSHRC | When doing good becomes doing bad: The effects of repeated necessary evil enactment on moral disengagement |
ARRANDALE, VICTORIA | Canadian Cancer Society | Combining contact lens sensors, metabolomics and artificial intelligence to characterize exposure and breast cancer biomarkers |
AWADALLA, PHILIP | Public Health Agency of Canada | Surveying Prospective population Cohorts for COVID19 prevalence and outcomes in Canada (SUPPORT-Canada) |
BAKER, G ROSS | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care | Ontario Health Team Impact Fellowship Program |
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) |
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. |
BROOK, JEFFREY | CIHR | CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium |
BROOK, JEFFREY | Public Health Agency of Canada | Equity – Built Environment Surveillance Tools (E-Best) |
BROOKS, JENNIFER | CIHR | MRI parenchymal enhancement and risk of breast cancer: A population-based study of women screened in the Ontario Breast Screening Program |
BUCHAN, SARAH | Hospital for Sick Children | Burden, cost, and development of asthma related to severe RSV infections |
BULL, SHELLEY | NSERC | Integrative Statistical Modelling in Genetics and Genomics |
CHIARELLI, ANNA MARIA | Ministry of Research and Innovation | Personalized Risk Assessment for Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Integration and Implementation (PERSPECTIVE II) | DIRUGGIERO, ERICA | IDRC | Advancing an IDRC agenda on healthy and sustainable food systems research |
DOBROW, MARK | CIHR | Health System Learning from Knowledges and Evidence Held Within Indigenous Communities |
DUMONT, JANICE | SSHRC | Mobilizing Partnerships to Advance a Provincial Intersectoral Network on Trans-Affirming Practice to Support Sexual Assault Survivors – the trans-LINK Project |
ESCOBAR, MICHAEL | NIH | Machine learning to inform health services and policy for traumatic brain injury |
FIRESTONE, MICHELLE | CONNAUGHT | Community voice and leadership from within institutionalized care models: lessons from COVID-19 |
FISMAN, DAVID | CIHR | Understanding, Forecasting and Communicating Risk During the COVID-19 Epidemic |
FISMAN, DAVID | CIHR | An Online Platform for Expanding Antibiotic Stewardship: OPEN Stewardship |
FORMAN, LISA | WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION | COVID-19 and the International Health Regulations: Ethical and Legal Considerations for Travel Restrictions in 2021 and Beyond |
GAGNON, FRANCE | CIHR | Sex differences in the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism: testing an epigenetic hypothesis |
GESINK, DIONNE | CIHR | Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) In Suburban Cities |
GIGNAC, MONICQUE | SSHRC | 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 |
GOEL, VIVEK | PHAC | CanCOVID Sentinel Intelligence: SITE Initiative |
GOEL, VIVEK | MCMASTER HEALTH LABS | COVID-19 International Border Surveillance Study Data Analysis Project |
GRACE, DANIEL | CIHR | Engage-COVID-19: A mixed methods study of biomedical, behavioural, and psychosocial aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex in men in Canada |
GRACE, DANIEL | CANFAR | Improving Black women’s experiences when accessing HIV-related services in Toronto: Critical narrative explorations of race and racism |
HOLNESS, LINN | Labour (ON), Min of | Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease |
HOWARD, REBECCA | CANADIAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION | Landscape Analysis of Canada’s Pandemic Response Supply Chain: Towards a Self-Sufficient and Sustainable Pandemic Response Materials Ecosystem |
JACKEVICIUS, CYNTHIA | HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION | Optimizing Novel Diabetes Therapy in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease |
JETHA, ARIF | SSHRC | Transitioning to the future of work: An intersectional study of vulnerable youth and young adults |
KIRSH, VICTORIA | CANCER CARE ONTARIO | The Canadian Study of Diet, Lifestyle, and Health |
KUSTRA, RAFAL | ST MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL | Leveraging historical population-based data to validate mathematical modeling of COVID-19 transmission and inform population-specific interventions |
LAPORTE, AUDREY | MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE | PEPR Project |
MARCHILDON, GREGORY | ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA | Comparative Policy Analysis of Programs to Support People with Dementia and Co-Existing Complex Needs and their Caregivers |
MASHFORD-PRINGLE, ANGELA | SSHRC | Kijibashik – Turn it Around: Indigenous Women’s Stories on Motherhood and Incarceration |
MASHFORD-PRINGLE, ANGELA | CIHR/td> | Early Partnerships in Building Community-Led Programs and Supports for Incarcerated Indigenous Mothers in Ontario |
FLORA, MATHESON | NSERC | Self-management in the age of complexity: An eHealth tool to support people experiencing problem gambling, poverty & homelessness |
MCLAUGHLIN, JOHN | CANADIAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST CANCER | Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project |
MILLER, FIONA | CIHR | Blockbuster Diagnostics? The political economy of diagnostic innovation in comparative perspective |
PEREZ-BRUMER, AMAYA | SSHRC | Migration at the Margins: Testimonios of Belonging and Social Rights for Venezuelan Transgender Refugees in Latin America |
QUYNH, PHAM | CIHR | Actionable Analytics for Optimized Heart Failure Management and Self-Care |
POLAND, BLAKE | Connaught Fund | Connected Communities in a time of Physical Distancing: Community-led responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in City of Toronto |
ROSELLA, LAURA | CONNAUGHT FUND | Building a Real-Time Health System COVID Collaborative Data and Analytics Hub in Ontario |
ROSELLA, LAURA | CIHR | Population health analytics in action: Improving impact, sustainability & equity of the health care system |
ROSELLA, LAURA | PHAC | Canadian open data initiative in response to the pandemic (PHAC) |
ROSS, LORI | PHAC | An intervention to enhance the capacity of providers working in trauma services to respond to the needs of LGBTQ2+ clients |
ROSS, LORI | SSHRC | The political economy of precarious work: Stories of economic insecurity and work among sexual minority men |
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN | PHYSICIAN SERVICES INC. FOUNDATION | The Ontario Program To Improve AntiMIcrobial USE (OPTIMISE): Building the Foundation for a Community Stewardship Program |
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN | CIHR | The JPIAMR Antibiotic Audit and Feedback International Collaboration: Best practices for the delivery of antibiotic prescribing feedback to community clinicians using behavioural science |
SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | PHAC | All Together Now! An Intervention to Reach LGBTQI2S+ Young Adult Smokers |
SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Health Canada | Designing Youth Vaping Cessation Interventions |
SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | CIHR | RETRAC2: Research on Commercial Tobacco Reduction in Aboriginal Communities |
SCOTT, JAMES | MINISTRY OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION | Increasing Testing Capacity for Critical Respiratory PPE in Ontario for the Current COVID Pandemic and Beyond: Budget Request and Description of Warranted Testing Procedures |
SCOTT, JAMES | CONNAUGHT | Improving & Evaluating Aerosol PPE & Containment Devices for COVID-19 Virus |
SETO, EMILY | CIHR | Nurse-Led Integrated Care of Complex Patients Facilitated by Telemonitoring during Transition from Hospital to Home |
SETO, EMILY | MNISTRY OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION | Mobile Innovations to Support Health Services |
SHAW, JAMES | SSHRC | Values Ecosystems in the Design of Artificial Intelligence for Health Care: An Exploratory Focused Ethnography |
SIDDIQI, ARJUMAND | CIHR – Grants | 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 |
SMYLIE, JANET | CONNAUGHT | Rapid Implementation of a Shared COVID-19 Tracking and Response Platform for FNIM Populations in Canada |
SRIHARAN, ABIRAMY | CIHR | Stress, burnout and depression in women in health care during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Evidence Synthesis |
STEWART, SUZANNE | CIHR | Holistic Indigenous Mental Health and Wellness: Transforming health care strenghts and solutions |
STEWART, SUZANNE | NCE: MAKING THE SHIFT NETWORK | Making the Shift – Youth Homelessness Solutions Impact Accelerator (MtS) |
STRIKE, CAROL | OHTN | Emergency Safe Supply Program: Examining an innovative model to improve the continuum of care for people who use drugs and address the overdose crisis |
TRBOVICH, PATRICIA | Natural Sciences & Engineering | Designing Tools to Support Cognitive Decision Making Under Uncertainty |
TRBOVICH, PATRICIA | CIHR | Improving Hospital Opioid Diversion Safeguards |
TUITE, ASHLEY | Health Canada | Support in modelling and simulations of public health measures combinations (social distancing and tracing and quarantine) to assess healthcare needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
WEI, XIAOLIN | IDRC | Developing integrated guidelines for health care workers in hospital and primary healthcare facilities in response to Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) |
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 |