Past Postdoctoral Fellows - Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Name	Supervisor	Research Interests
Alexandra Blair Twitter: @amsblair	Arjumand Siddiqi	PhD Public Health and Epidemiology, Université de Montréal MSc Psychiatry, McGill UniversityA former Vanier scholar, Dr. Alexandra Blair’s interests are in social epidemiology, health equity, and policy evaluation. She completed a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology at the Université de Montréal and an MSc in Psychiatry, with specialization in psychiatric epidemiology, from McGill University. Her postdoctoral work explores the social determinants of substance use, Deaths of Despair and related syndemics in Canada. Having worked with the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and most recently with the Montreal Regional Public Health Office during the COVID-19 pandemic, she is particularly interested in studying the health equity impacts of health and social policies. Her recent work explores COVID-19 prevention and control efforts within prisons in Canada.Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gblo9IEAAAAJ&hl=enOrchid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8555-0399LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-blair-402a467b/
Stacey Fisher Twitter: StaceyFisher_	Laura Rosella	PhD Epidemiology – University of Ottawa MSc Epidemiology – University of Alberta BSc Cell Biology – University of AlbertaDr. Stacey Fisher was a post-doctoral fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Public Health Ontario, supported by a CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship in equitable artificial intelligence (AI). She is also a postgraduate affiliate with the Vector Institute. Her research interests include population health, chronic disease prevention, the development of predictive risk algorithms, and the application of machine learning methods to public health. Her post-doctoral work involves supporting Public Health Ontario and public health units in building capacity for AI, developing population risk prediction models for chronic disease using machine learning methods and evaluating their utility to inform public health activities.Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g8MFeoMAAAAJ&hl=enLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-fisher-76012495/
Mark Gaspar	Daniel Grace	Dr. Mark Gaspar’s specializations are in sociological theory and qualitative research methods. He examines health inequalities affecting sexual and gender minorities, with concentrations in sexual health, HIV, HPV, blood-donation policy, and mental health. His research investigates how biomedicine has influenced our understanding of the fundamental causes of social inequalities, focusing on how it operates as a dominant frame for organizing health research and advocacy for marginalized communities.
Kelly Holloway	Fiona A. Miller	Dr. Holloway is a medical sociologist with interdisciplinary training in feminist theory and political economy. Her doctoral work in Sociology at York University explored pharmaceutical industry influence in medical education in the United States and Canada. Following this, she did a CIHR-funded post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University studying emerging health researchers and the commercialization of academic science. In her current post-doctoral work at IHPME she is studying the political economy of molecular diagnostics with Dr. Fiona Miller.
Sandra Juutilainen	Suzanne Stewart Angela Mashford-Pringle	Dr. Sandra Juutilainen is a member of Oneida Nation of the Thames and also of Finnish Canadian heritage. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the DLSPH. She is working alongside Dr. Melanie Jeffrey on a mixed methods study: ‘Indigenous populations and spinal cord injury: utilizing an Indigenous lens to establish meaningful data’. Her focus is on the qualitative component of the study. Funding support for this study received from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation and the Rick Hansen Institute. Sandra has experience working in the area of Indigenous health with First Nations at the community, provincial and federal level in Canada and with Sami communities in the Nordic countries. She currently holds an adjunct assistant professor appointment at the University of Waterloo.
Tess Lanzarotta Twitter: @tesslanzarotta	Anne-Emanuelle Birn	BA, McGill University MA, McGill University PhD, Yale UniversityTess is a historian of science, medicine, and technology whose work focuses on the relationships between Indigenous communities and researchers — biomedical, public health, and anthropological. Her current book project focuses on biomedical research and public health in Cold War Alaska. At the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, she is developing a new project on the role of Indigenous communities, particular in the circumpolar regions, in shaping Global Health knowledge, policies, and agendas. tesslanzarotta.com
Kinnon Ross MacKinnon Twitter: @Kinnon_Ross	Daniel Grace	BA (gender studies & history) BSW, MSW, PhD (public health sciences)Dr. Kinnon Ross MacKinnon is a community-engaged researcher who is curious about the social world, and how health and social care systems are organized. Stemming from interdisciplinary training in public health and social work, his research seeks to understand and respond to gaps in health and social services, emphasizing equity for LGBTQ2 people. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research, Kinnon is working alongside Dr. Daniel Grace on the GetCheckedOnline Ontario Contexts Study. This is a CIHR-funded project that uses institutional ethnography to investigate how the structural landscape in Ontario shapes the possibilties for digital STI testing for gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men. Kinnon’s broad research interests include the social and structural determinants of healthcare, sociology of healthcare, and health professions education. In January 2021 he begins a new role as assistant professor in the School of Social Work at York University.https://utoronto.academia.edu/KinnonRossMacKinnon
Megan McGee Twitter: @McGeeMeghan	Laura Rosella	Bachelor of Arts and Science, BASc, McGill Master of Science, MSc, uOttawa Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, UofTDr. Meghan McGee is a CIHR Health System Impact Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a data scientist within the Health AI team at Deloitte Canada. Meghan helps clients in the health and life sciences sector leverage AI tools and techniques to improve the health of their patients and populations. She has extensive knowledge and expertise in clinical and health science research, statistical analysis, and AI methodologies. She completed her PhD in collaboration with The Hospital for Sick Children to develop obesity reduction strategies for children born preterm. Meghan is a science communicator and actively promotes the importance of translation research.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSXVs0jBNUE Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=DBAJuxoAAAAJ&hl=en PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=McGee+Meghan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcgeemeghan/
Arthur McLuhan	Flora Matheson	Ph.D., Sociology, McMaster University M.A., Sociology, University of Waterloo B.A., Sociology, University of WaterlooArthur McLuhan was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He also serves as the Chair of the Theory Division in the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Broadly, his work emphasizes the study of generic social processes and patterns and engages the areas of sociological theory and research methods; self, identity, and culture; and social problems and moral regulation.
Frances Morton-Chang	Whitney Berta	Health Policy Healthcare Management Health and Aging Frailty Dementia Home and Community Care Integrated Community Based Primary Healthcare Long-term Care Social Determinants of Health Environmental Design and Dementia
Segun Ogundele	Erica DiRuggiero	Ph.D. in Health Economics – Maastricht University, Netherlands MSc Global Health – Maastricht University, Netherlands MSc Demography – Southampton University, UKDr. Segun Ogundele was a Postdoctoral fellow in Implementation Science at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Broadly, his research seeks to understand what will work in policy implementation, for who and under what contexts health strategies can be promoted. His research interests include global policy agenda-setting for health, health systems strengthening, population health (policies and outcomes), access to health care, and social determinants of health and related inequalities.
Allie Peckham	Gregory Marchildon	Dr. Peckham is a trained social worker, the senior research officer at the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policy, and restricted graduate faculty member at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Dr. Peckham is a health services researcher who uses a variety of methods to conduct comparative policy analysis and explore health system design. Dr. Peckham’s research draws heavily from critical theories and explores the impact that formal systems and policies can have on the development and sustainability of formal and informal care networks.
Merrick Pilling	Lori Ross	Merrick Pilling was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Lori Ross on the Peers Examining Experiences in Research (PEERS) study, which examines peer involvement in community based research. His doctoral research used qualitative approaches to examine the impact of the biomedical model of mental illness on the lives of LGBTQ who experience mental distress. In general, his work employs intersectional, Mad Studies approaches to understanding mental distress.

Katherine Rudzinski	Carol Strike	Dr. Katherine Rudzinski (HBA, MA, PhD) was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She currently holds a Mitacs Elevate Fellowship in partnership with Casey House Foundation. Katherine has 12+ years of experience working with marginalized individuals who use drugs in a variety of research projects and contexts. She has expertise in resilience research, social theory, addictions, gender and public health studies, and qualitative methods. Her current research examines the challenges and opportunities of providing harm reduction programs and services in a clinical care setting for people living with HIV/AIDS who use drugs.
Johanna Sanchez	Denice Feig	PhD (Global Health and Epidemiology), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia MIPH (Master of International Public Health), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia HBSc (Honours Bachelor of Science), University of Toronto, St. George, TorontoDr. Johanna Sanchez was a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and at the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University. Her research interests include investigating early child growth in vulnerable populations as well as enteric infection and the effect on health outcomes, particularly in the area of water, hygiene and sanitation. Her research at DLSPH focuses on child growth in children of women with type 2 diabetes. https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=xBs-2w4AAAAJ&hl=en https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johanna-Sanchez-10
Martine Shareck	Blake Poland	Martine Shareck was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Trained in public health, social epidemiology and health geography, she is broadly interested in the socio-spatial determinants of urban health and in uncovering how to create more equitable and sustainable cities. She has 10 years of experience researching neighbourhood and activity space effects on the health practices of young people, such as smoking and diet, and social inequities thereof. Martine is currently involved in three mixed-methods intervention evaluation studies, one of which is based at DLSPH and is a community-based evaluation of built environment interventions implemented in two socially and ethnically-diverse tower neighbourhoods in Toronto.
Divya Sharma	Wei Xu	Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Master of Technology (MTech) in Information Communication Technologies Doctor in Philosophy (PhD) in Computer ScienceDr. Divya Sharma has a PhD degree in Computer Science, with a specialisation in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. As a postdoctoral fellow at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, she is applying her expertise in advanced machine learning techniques, to combine human and artificial intelligence for solving important problems in the area of Health Research. Her postdoctoral research deals with developing novel neural network models in the area of disease prediction using microbiome data, under the supervision of Dr. Wei Xu (Princess Margaret Hospital) and Dr. Andrew D. Paterson (The Hospital of Sick Kids). She is also working with Dr. Claudia dos Santos’s group at St. Michael’s Hospital to identify distinct sub-phenotypes in sepsis and septic shock patients using machine learning tools. She aims to extend her research to medical image analysis along with genomic data analysis to aid interdisciplinary research in the areas of Computer Science and Health Research.
Mostafa Shokoohi Twitter: @ShokoohiM	Lori Ross	Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science Epidemiology (MSc) Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ph.D.)Dr. Shokoohi was a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His research focuses on reducing disparities in health, clinical, social and behavioural outcomes among individuals living with HIV, as well as socially marginalized populations. Central to this focus is his consideration of how risk factors at multilevel of individual/behavioural, interpersonal, community, social, and structural/environmental influence care and treatment (e.g., the cascade of care), preventive care (e.g., harm reduction programs), access to health care, and quality of life. He completed his Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University, Ontario, focusing on social and behavioural determinants of health among women living with HIV using the largest cohort of HIV among women in Canada (CHIWOS). His ongoing CIHR-Funded Postdoctoral research concentrates on multimorbidities, both physical and mental health outcomes, and mortality among Canadian sexual minorities. He is interested in focusing on novel theoretical, methodological, epidemiological and statistical approaches to health behaviours and health outcomes across the HIV care cascade and HIV prevention programs.Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RH1quLEAAAAJ&hl=en ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mostafa_Shokoohi PubMed:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Shokoohi%2C+Mostafa%5BAuthor%5D&ac=no&sort=relevance
Diya Uberoi	Lisa Forman	Dr. Uberoi (J.D., MPhil, LLM, PhD) is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with experience working with different international and national organizations looking into the protection of the right to health. Her research looks into accountability for health, especially with respect to the role national courts play in enforcing the right to health.