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).
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What I Teach
I teach Health Promotion 1 – September 2025.
I teach CHL5807H: Health Communications in the Fall — taught it in 2023, taught it again in 2024, and I’ll be back in your academic life in September 2025. CHL5807H is a hands-on graduate course where we explore how 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.
I’m a Latino-Canadian, queer, and proudly living with HIV since 1986. Since 1989, I’ve been deep in the HIV movement in Canada — researching, organizing, writing the good, the bad, and the gloriously complicated story of AIDS in this country through fiction and non-fiction.
As a community-based researcher, my work lives at the intersection of patient-oriented research, Knowledge Mobilization (KMb), and digital learning innovations. In plain English? 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.
Stuff I Do (and love doing)
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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.
Short, Sharp, and Fun Micro-learnings
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