Global Health Faculty - Dalla Lana School of Public Health

These DLSPH Faculty engage in global health scholarship activities as part of their research and education portfolio and are affiliates of the Centre for Global Health. They have primary academic appointments in home faculty units throughout the School, reflecting the broad scope and impact of the School’s global health scholarship footprint.

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Faculty Name	Faculty/ Division	Current Position	Research Interests
Lusine Abrahamyan	IHPME – Health Services Research	Assistant Professor	Health Services Research Clinical Epidemiology Health Technology Assessment
Victoria Arrandale	Occupational & Environmental Health	Assistant Professor	Occupational exposure assessment and occupational epidemiology Etiology of occupational diseases, including cancer as well as other diseases of the skin and respiratory systems Development and evaluation of interventions to reduce occupational exposures Current work focuses on the mining sector, with additional interests in personal services sector and manufacturing
Garry Aslanyan	Clinical Public Health	Adjunct Professor	Global Health Diplomacy Global health research capacity building Comparative health policy and systems Public health policy and systems thinking in public health
Anne-Emanuelle Birn	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Professor	history of public health in Latin America (Mexico, Uruguay) global/international health policy and politics, past and present women and international health historical demography – infant mortality societal determinants of health comparative health policy (Latin America) Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America Primary health care, social justice, and international (health) politics in the 1980s and 1990s
Paul Bozek	Occupational & Environmental Health	Associate Professor	quantitative exposure measurements to toxic materials chemical exposure control technology work population chemical exposure profiles asbestos, silica
Catherine Chalin	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Professor Emerita	global public health peace-building through public health uprooted people (refugees, street people, immigrants) human rights medical education child poverty public health in conflicted regions of the world disabilities, habilitation and rehabilitation (hearing loss)
Adrienne Chan	Clinical Public Health	Associate Professor	Delivery of health services in resource limited settings: Decentralization and roll-out of antiretroviral therapy and HIV related services TB/HIV and NCD/HIV program integration Scale up of PMTCT services Task-shifting of services to address human resources for health constraints Clinical research: reduction of mortality due to opportunistic infections (specifically TB and cryptococcal meningitis) in HIV patient with severe immunosuppression West Africa Ebola Outbreak: long-term clinical and health systems sequelae
Andrea Cortinois	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Assistant Professor	Global migration and health Global public health Health and health equity in highly multicultural societies
Avram Denburg	IHPME – Health Services Research	Assistant Professor	Pharmaceutical Policy for Children Public Engagement in Health Policy Health Policy Ethics and Social Values Social Determinants of Child Health Global Childhood Cancer Outcomes Child Health Technology Assessment Economic Evaluation in Child Health Child Health and Social Policy Analysis
Erica Di Ruggiero	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Associate Professor	Study of population health interventions (policies, programs), their health and health equity impacts: Relationship between context and population health interventions Social and economic policies influencing decent work at the global level Global agenda setting in policy Population health intervention and implementation research/science Qualitative research and mixed methods research; discourse analysis Knowledge utilization and exchange strategies to influence public health decision-making at national and global levels
Beverley Essue	IHPME – Health Services Research	Assistant Professor	Health Economics Health Financing Equity
Shaza Fadel	Clinical Public Health	Assistant Professor	Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology of infectious diseases Global Health Newborn immunity Population immunity and susceptibility to vaccine preventable diseases Implementation and impact of immunization programs in limited resource settings Mortality and infectious disease surveillance
Lisa Forman	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Associate Professor	The right to health in international human rights law Human rights and COVID-19 Sustainable Development Goals Universal health coverage Trade-related intellectual property rights and access to medicines globally Human rights impact assessment South African constitutional law related to health
Sue Greco	Occupational & Environmental Health	Adjunct Professor	air pollution applied public health research burden of disease analysis community-based participatory research data science data visualization dose-response modeling environmental health exposure assessment fate and transport models human health risk assessment intake fraction
Rebecca Hancock – Howard	IHPME	Assistant Professor	Health Economics Health Policy Outcomes and Evaluation Health Technology Assessment
Suzanne Jackson	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences	Associate Professor Emerita	Global health promotion Realist evaluation-linked coding method Health Promotion planning and evaluation Participatory Action Research, participatory evaluation processes Qualitative research Economic evaluation in health promotion First People’s Health/circumpolar health promotion strategic planning and group process Mental health promotion Centre for Health Promotion (historical)
Valerie Krym	Clinical Public Health	Associate Professor	Dr. Krym is currently active in Nepal and Rwanda, carrying out needs assessments to help Emergency Medicine as a specialty and formulating Public Health governance and program development. Her recently completed needs assessments were received by national government and academic leadership, and are being used by these agencies to act as a basis for muliti-stakeholder (government, NGO, academic) program development in these areas.
Joel Lexchin	Family & Community Medicine	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutical Policy Globalization and Health Neoliberalism and Health
Wendy Lou	Biostatistics	Professor	Distribution Theory of Runs and Patterns and Its Applications Measures for Continuity of Care Joint Modeling for Longitudinal and Survival Data Analysis of Patterns and Repeats in DNA Sequences Methods for Health Care Quality Monitoring
Fiona Miller	IHPME – Health Services Research	Professor	Health Policy Health Technology Assessment
Sharmistha Mishra	IHPME – Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research	Assistant Professor	Mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission dynamics, with a focus on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections Simulation science for clinical and public health decision-making Systems and data-science
Lisa Puchalski Ritchie	IHPME	Assistant Professor	Knowledge Translation Global Health Mixed Methods Emergency Medicine
Mayvis Rebeira	IHPME – Health Services Research	Lecturer	Health Economics Health Services Research Health Outcomes Economic Evaluation
Beate Sander	IHPME – Health Services Research	Associate Professor	Health Economics Health Policy Health Services Research Outcomes and Evaluation Clinical Epidemiology Comparative Outcomes Research Health Technology Assessment
Neil Seeman	IHPME	Lecturer	Health Policy Knowledge Translation
Abi Sriharan	IHPME – System Leadership and Innovation	Assistant Professor	Dr. Sriharan is an award winning evaluation research scientist. She has led numerous program evaluation and implementation research studies on behalf of governments, professional societies and non-governmental organizations. Her current research interest lies in the area of physician burnout and health systems leadership.
Thérèse Stukel	IHPME – Health Services Research	Professor	Health Economics Health Policy Health Services Research Outcomes and Evaluation Clinical Epidemiology Clinical Trials Comparative Outcomes Research
Jeremy, Veillard	IHPME – Health Services Research	Assistant Professor	Health Policy Health Services Research Quality Improvement
Ilene Hyman	Social & Behavioral Health Sciences Division, Centre for Global Health	Adjunct Professor	Health and Social Equity Immigrant and Refugee Health Indigenous Health Gender and Health Mental Health
Shaun Morris	Epidemiology Division, Clinical Public Health Division, Centre for Global Health	Associate Professor	Newborn and child mortality Tropical infectious diseases Community based trials Children’s travel medicine Verbal autopsies
Jerome Amir Singh	Clinical Public Health Division, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Centre for Global Health	Adjunct Professor	Global health governance Global health ethics Planetary health governance and ethics Climate change ethics and governance Environmental law and ethics Public health law and ethics Research ethics Health law Health and human rights International humanitarian law Science and ethics Technology and ethics
Ross E. G Upshur	Clinical Public Health Division, Centre for Global Health	Professor	Evidence in health care Complexity and aging Philosophy of medicine Bioethics, public health and global health ethics particularly infectious diseases Preventive medicine Clinical reasoning Time series analysis of health services data Primary care research Health information privacy
Denise Paneduro	Clinical Public Health Division, Centre for Global Health	Assistant Professor	Development and evaluation of mindfulness-based programs for children, families, and systems Mental health, resilience, wellbeing, and attention across the lifespan Organizational Leadership and workplace health and wellbeing Health promotion Clinical research trials Program evaluation Implementation science Innovative holistic approaches to prevent and treat chronic stress, trauma, and disease Community-based, patient-oriented, & student-centered research
Arjumand Siddiqi	Epidemiology Division, Centre for Global Health	Professor	Evaluating of the impact of specific social policies on population health and health inequalities Examining the causes of contemporary trends in population health and health inequalities Reflections on concepts and methods used in health inequalities research
Anne-Emanuelle Birn	Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Centre for Global Health	Professor	History of public health in Latin America (Mexico, Uruguay) Global/international health policy and politics, past and present Historical demography – infant mortality Comparative health policy (Latin America) Health and medicine in Cold War Latin America Extractive industries and health Primary health care, social justice, and international (health) politics in the 1980s and 1990s
Calvin H. Ke	Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine	Assistant Professor	Research interests include the management and outcomes of type 2 diabetes, with a focus on young-onset type 2 diabetes and on Chinese and South Asian populations.
Vincent Kuuire	Geography, Geomatics and Environment	Associate Professor	Examining immigrant integration dynamics in Canada Connections between transnational activities and integration Studying migration as a livelihood strategy in North-Western Ghana Health geography focus on: Environment and health Non-communicable diseases Healthcare access disparities in sub-Saharan Africa Urbanization, Transportation & Health
Neil Stuart	Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation	Adjunct Professor	Health policy Older adults Home care Long-term care Health care quality Patient and family engagement Patient- and family-centered care
Neill Adhikari	Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation	Associate Professor	Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (CEHCR)
Rachel Spitzer	Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Temerty Faculty of Medicine	Professor	Underserved Populations, Pregnancy (Adolescent), contraception, global women’s health
Neil Seeman	Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation	Adjunct Lecturer	Health Administration (MHSc) Health Systems Leadership and Innovation (HSLI) Health Systems Research (HSR) Health Policy Health Systems Artificial Intelligence