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Ellena Andoniou

Research Associate

Disciplines

  • Geography

Research Interests

  • Dr Andoniou has 13 years experience working in the African context, and it began with her masters work exploring sexual behavior change in the context of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Her first in-field experience came when she first served as a Western Heads East (WHE) intern in Mwanza, Tanzania - the project is Western’s community response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. For the last number of years, her work focused on the WHE project which is a research and service-learning program that partners with women’s groups in East Africa to introduce probiotic yogurt to help address the health, social, and economic impacts of the illness. She has an extensive background in HIV/AIDS, nutrition, gender, community health, capacity building, food insecurity, community mobilization and project management.
  • Ellena has extensive in-field experience from managing projects in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, and Rwanda. Her research and professional collaborations have allowed her to work closely with community members, the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania, The Kenya Medical Research Institute, and other development and health-care organizations in the region. Her previous work also includes activities with the Canadian Physicians for Research and Education in Peace, and the Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation (UofT), where she helped launch the institute and took on a role in communications and project management. Dr Andoniou is now part of the TSAM team, which helps to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Rwanda.

Isaac Luginaah

Professor & Canada Research Chair, Health Geography

Disciplines

  • Geography

Research Interests

  • My broad area of research interest includes environment and health, population health and GIS applications in health. My work involves an integrative understanding of the broad determinants of the population health and the evidence of environment and health linkages. I am specifically interested in the human health impacts of environmental exposure and recent work in this area involves examining the links between ambient air quality and health in Southwestern Ontario. I am also involved in HIV/AIDS research in Africa, specifically Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria.

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  1. Global Health Equity

Discipline

    1. Medicine and Health Sciences 12
    2. Nursing 5
    3. Social and Behavioral Sciences 4
    4. Biostatistics 3
    5. Geography 3

Research Interest

    1. Global health 3
    2. Children's Health 2
    3. Health Services Research 2
    4. Mental Health 2
    5. * Best practices in research with marginalized populations 1
    1. * Community Development 1
    2. * Drones for health 1
    3. * Humanitarian healthcare 1
    4. * Knowledge Transfer 1
    5. * Pain and palliative care across cultures 1
    6. * Social determinants, responses to, and impacts of suffering 1
    7. * Sport for Development 1
    8. Aboriginal Health 1
    9. Adult Language Disorders 1
    10. Ambiguous loss 1
    11. Application of Bayesian statistical methods to epidemiology and global health including maternal and child health 1
    12. Approches innovantes pour l’enseignement des langues secondes (AIELS) 1
    13. Barriers to health care and oral health services in marginalized communities such as living with HIV/HCV, Refugees, Indigenous population and LGBTQ2S 1
    14. Bayesian statistical methods 1
    15. Bias Recognition 1
    16. Bioethics 1
    17. Biostatistics in Africa 1
    18. Cardio-metabolic disease epidemiology and prevention 1
    19. Civil education 1
    20. Clinical Epidemiology 1
    21. Collective Leadership 1
    22. Community Engaged Learning 1
    23. Community Engagement 1
    24. Community Health 1
    25. Community based participatory research. 1
    26. Contemporary structuring and negotiation of retirement and later life work 1
    27. Contextual factors impacting decision-making 1
    28. Continuity of Care – patient journeys 1
    29. Critical gerontology 1
    30. Critical social theory and occupational science 1
    31. Decision analytic modelling and simulation to inform health policy 1
    32. Development issues 1
    33. Didactique du FLS/FLE 1
    34. Digital Engagement 1
    35. Digital Health 1
    36. Disappearance 1
    37. Disparities in occupational possibilities created through socio-political conditions and forces (e.g. post-secondary education and First Nations youth 1
    38. Diversity and Equity in Health 1
    39. Dr Andoniou has 13 years experience working in the African context, and it began with her masters work exploring sexual behavior change in the context of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Her first in-field experience came when she first served as a Western Heads East (WHE) intern in Mwanza, Tanzania - the project is Western’s community response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. For the last number of years, her work focused on the WHE project which is a research and service-learning program that partners with women’s groups in East Africa to introduce probiotic yogurt to help address the health, social, and economic impacts of the illness. She has an extensive background in HIV/AIDS, nutrition, gender, community health, capacity building, food insecurity, community mobilization and project management. 1
    40. Economic evaluation of public health interventions 1
    41. Educational resources 1
    42. Ellena has extensive in-field experience from managing projects in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, and Rwanda. Her research and professional collaborations have allowed her to work closely with community members, the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania, The Kenya Medical Research Institute, and other development and health-care organizations in the region. Her previous work also includes activities with the Canadian Physicians for Research and Education in Peace, and the Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation (UofT), where she helped launch the institute and took on a role in communications and project management. Dr Andoniou is now part of the TSAM team, which helps to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Rwanda. 1
    43. Empowering behaviours 1
    44. Epigenetic mechanisms linking prenatal exposure to genocide or genocidal rape and adulthood health outcomes 1
    45. Evidence Synthesis 1

Organization

    1. Global Health Equity
    2. Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing 5
    3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2
    4. Department of Geography and Environment 2
    5. Department of Microbiology & Immunology 2

Position

    1. Faculty Member 33
    2. Graduate Student 8