Selection of research projects held at DLSPH in the 2017-18 grant year:
| Principal Investigator | Funder | Project Title |
| ALLMAN, DANIEL | CIHR | Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH) 2018 Conference |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | CIHR | The Network for Better Access and Care for Complex Needs (BEACCON) |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | CIHR | Developing Tools That Predict Use of Breast Cancer Screening and Stage at Breast Cancer Diagnosis |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | CIHR | Prediction of Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Diagnosed with Early Stage Breast Cancer |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | The Network for Better Access and Care for Complex Needs (BEACCON) |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario | The impact and management of cardiovascular disease in Ontario women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | Jewish General Hospital | Broad and deep longitudinal Analysis in Neurodegenerative disease (BRAIN) |
| ANDERSON, GEOFF | The Commonwealth Fund | Program Delivery for High-Needs High-Costs Populations-International Perspectives On The Way Forward, Phase I |
| BAKER, G. ROSS | CIHR | Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy |
| BAKER, G. 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. |
| BENOIT, ANITA | Women’s College Hospital | Reducing stress and improving mental health and wellness among Indigenous women with socio-economic insecurities, living with and without HIV |
| BERTA, WHITNEY | CIHR | The Invisible Workforce: The Critical Role of Health Support Workers in Caring for Older Canadians |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | CIHR | Recognition and response: Using applied public health research to understand and address a population health emergency in street-connected children and youth in Kenya |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | CIHR | 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. |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | Indiana University | OSCAR’s Health and Well-Being Project |
| BRAITSTEIN, PAULA | Indiana University | International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Phase III |
| BRIOLLAIS, LAURENT | NSERC | Bayesian graphical models for the analysis of complex genetic data |
| BROOK, JEFFREY | CIHR | CANadian Urban Environmental (CANUE) Health Research Consortium |
| BROOK, JEFFREY | NCE: Allergy, Genes and | Better Exposure Avoidance Measures (BEAM) |
| 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 | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Centre for Evidence and Health in All Policies (CEHIAP) |
| BROWN, ADALSTEINN | University Health Network | Biostatistics Research Unit Project |
| BROWN, ADALSTEINN | CIHR | Modernizing Health Services and Policy Research Training in Canada |
| BROWN, PATRICK | NSERC | Inference on spatio-temporal log Gaussian Cox processes for spatially aggregated disease incidence data |
| BULL, SHELLEY | NSERC | Regression Models for Data Integration in Genetics and Genomics |
| CALZAVARA, LIVIANA | CIHR | Observational evaluation of immediate antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in Shanghai, China |
| COLE, DONALD | University of Northern British Columbia | Metanarrative on Canadian patterns of Research on Resources Extraction and Health in Canada – Ben Brisbois |
| DI RUGGIERO, ERICA MARIE CHRISTINE | Community Foundations of Canada | The Statistical Alliance for Vital Events (SAVE) Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholars Program (SAVE-QES) |
| ESCOBAR, MICHAEL | NSERC | Comorbidity in traumatic brain injury and risk of all-cause mortality, functional and financial burden: a decade-long population based cohort study |
| FISMAN, DAVID | CIHR | An Online Platform for Expanding Antibiotic Stewardship: OPEN Stewardship |
| GIBSON, JENNIFER | CIHR | Artificial Intelligence and Global Health Ethics: A Collaborative Research Agenda-Setting Meeting |
| GIGNAC, MONIQUE | CIHR | Sustainable work participation: work disability prevention and improvement of employment outcomes among those with chronic, episodic health conditions |
| GIGNAC, MONIQUE | SSHRC | Conceal or Reveal: Facilitators and Barriers to Older Workers’ Communication of Accommodation Needs in the Workplace and its Relationship to Work Outcomes |
| GIGNAC, MONIQUE | SSHRC | Sustainable work participation: work disability prevention and improvement of employment outcomes among those with chronic, episodic health conditions |
| GRACE, DANIEL | CIHR | Proactive Interventions: Increasing Accessibility to Care to Prevent Mental Health Crises and Foster Well-Being Among At-Risk Gay Men – Mark Gaspar |
| GRACE, DANIEL | Canadian Blood Services | Attitudes, Behaviours, and Acceptability related to current and future blood donation policy: A qualitative study of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal |
| GRACE, DANIEL | Ryerson University | HIV Prevention for Gay and bisexual Men: A Multisite Study and development of New HIV Prevention Interventions |
| GRACE, DANIEL | University Health Network | The HPV-SAVE Study Team: HPV Screening and Vaccine Evaluation in Men Who Have Sex with Men |
| HOLNESS, D LINN | Ministry of Labour (ON) | Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease |
| ISARANUWATCHAI, WANRUDEE | Queen’s University | How can Canadian municipalities enhance the right to food? |
| JHA, PRABHAT | Connaught Fund | Connaught Global Challenge-Global Mortality Data Divide |
| KAUFMAN, PAMELA | CIHR | Enabling the monitoring and advancement of knowledge on exposure to cannabis use. |
| KIM, JOSEPH | Lawson Health Research Institute | Kyla Naylor – Fellowship – Delayed Graft Function in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients from Ontario, Canada: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes |
| KIRSH, VICTORIA | CIHR | Investigating the role of radon exposure, air pollution, and diet on lung cancer risk among non-smokers in a prospective cohort study |
| KONTOS, PIA | CIHR | Optimizing quality of care for older LGBTQI2S persons – Alisa Grigorovich |
| KUSTRA, RAFAL | NSERC | Computational and Inferential Tools for Machine Learning Methods in Biostatistical Research |
| KWONG, JEFF | CIHR | ESTIMATION OF HEALTH AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF BLOOD-BORNE INFECTIONS |
| LOU, WEN-YI WENDY | Hospital for Sick Children | Gene and environment effects on lung health and risk for chronic respiratory disease, asthma and COPD |
| MARCHILDON, GREGORY | Alzheimer Society of Canada | Comparative Policy Analysis of Programs to Support People with Dementia and Co-Existing Complex Needs and their Caregivers |
| MARCHILDON, GREGORY | CIHR | Comparative Policy Analysis of Programs to Support People with Dementia and Co-Existing Complex Needs and their Caregivers |
| MCDONOUGH, PEGGY | SSHRC | Economic inequalities among women in later life: the role of structured life course processes in comparative context |
| MILLER, FIONA | CIHR | Pathways to procurement: Processes, rationales and options for investing in health technology innovation |
| MILLER, FIONA | CIHR | Blockbuster Diagnostics? The political economy of diagnostic innovation in comparative perspective |
| MILLER, FIONA | Ontario SPOR Support Unit | Partnership for Health System Strengthening |
| MUSTARD, CAMERON | CIHR | Strengthening disability management practices in the Ontario municipal sector |
| MUSTARD, CAMERON | SSHRC | Strengthening disability management practices in the Ontario municipal sector |
| ROSELLA, LAURA CHRISTINA ANTONIA | CIHR | Population health analytics in action: Improving impact, sustainability & equity of the health care system |
| ROSELLA, LAURA CHRISTINA ANTONIA | CIHR | Exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence in Population Risk Prediction |
| ROSELLA, LAURA CHRISTINA ANTONIA | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Supporting decision making for the prevention of chronic diseases and reduction of high health care utilization |
| ROSS, LORI ELIZABETH | CIHR | Patient-centred transition healthcare: Enhancing medical providers’ capacity to apply the informed consent model |
| ROSS, LORI ELIZABETH | SSHRC | Inclusion or illusion? A qualitative, participatory study of the experiences of peer researchers |
| SAARELA, OLLI SAMULI | NSERC | Towards more dynamic modeling of high-dimensional register-based data |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | CIHR | RETRAC2: Research on Commercial Tobacco Reduction in Aboriginal Communities |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Research on Advancing Cessation Treatment (RE:ACT) |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Research on electronic cigarettes and water pipes (RECIG2-WP) |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU) |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | PARN (Peterborough AIDS Resource Net) | Study of Municipal Drug Strategies |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | PARN (Peterborough AIDS Resource Net) | Evaluation of HKPR’s Harm Reduction Program Enhancement Initiatives |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Registered Nurses Association | RNAO Tobacco Intervention Initiative |
| SCHWARTZ, ROBERT | Virginia Commonwealth University | New Ontario Menthol Tobacco Ban Evaluation |
| SCOTT, JAMES | University of Alberta | Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease |
| SETO, EMILY | CIHR | Development of a telemonitoring app for management of patients with multiple chronic conditions within an integrated care model |
| SETO, EMILY | NSERC | Development of expert systems for complex chronic health conditions |
| STEWART, SUZANNE | Aurora College | Decolonizing Learning in Communities Across Canada: Stories of Hope |
| STEWART, SUZANNE | SSHRC | Breaking Bad: Challenging Aboriginal Employment Policy Using Aboriginal Knowledges |
| STRIKE, CAROL | CIHR | Day Health Programs for complex care delivery: Using implementation science and participatory methods to evaluate success and ethical care delivery |
| STRIKE, CAROL | University of Southern California | Preventing Injection Initiation: Change the Cycle Randomized Controlled Trial |
| STRUG, LISA | NSERC | Development of Evidential Methodology for Analysis of Genetic Data |
| SUN, LEI | NSERC | Statistical methods for complex genetic data |
| TRBOVICH, PATRICIA L | Hospital for Sick Children | Embedding Human Factors in Critical Care |
| TRBOVICH, PATRICIA L | NSERC | Development of an automated detection algorithm to improve efficiency of Operating Room Black Box analyses |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Health system performance research network – full application. |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Health System Performance Research Network |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (ON) | Health System Performance Research Network – Integrated Funding Models and Health Links Evaluation |
| WODCHIS, WALTER | Ontario SPOR Support Unit | Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN). |
| XU, WEI | NSERC | Methodology Development and Implementation for Microbiome Sequencing Data: Hierarchical Modeling on Clustered Taxa Counts with Repeated Measures |