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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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