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Michael Wolfson

ResearcherUniversity of Ottawa

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Michael Wolfson

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (3 CIHR, 2 SSHRC, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2020.

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Publications

225

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Research

Caring Responsiblities Cross-National Comparisons Demography Disability / Functional Limitations Dynamic Microsimulation Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Equity Life Course

Latest papers

Perspectives from a multi-stakeholder workshop for implementing a risk-stratified breast cancer screening program in Canada
Communications Medicine · 2026
Contribution of Risk Factors, Including Polygenic Score, to the Multifactorial Risk Assessment for the Implementation of Personalized Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the PERSPECTIVE: Integration and Implementation Project
Cancers · 2026
Multilevel Estimation of the Relative Impacts of Social Determinants on Income-Related Health Inequalities in Urban Canada: Protocol for the Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory
JMIR Research Protocols · 2025

All 21 publications

Latest funding

A place-based framework for equitable health service delivery
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$803,251
A place-based simulation model of the impact of structural determinants on health inequities
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$124,990
Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$650,251

All 15 grants and awards

21 publications.

Perspectives from a multi-stakeholder workshop for implementing a risk-stratified breast cancer screening program in Canada

Safieh-Garabedian N, Antoniou AC, Brooks J, Carroll J, Cavaillé M, Chiquette J, DeCoteau M, Doyle G, Eisen A, Eloy L

Communications Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01582-x

Contribution of Risk Factors, Including Polygenic Score, to the Multifactorial Risk Assessment for the Implementation of Personalized Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the PERSPECTIVE: Integration and Implementation Project

Yang X, Usher-Smith JA, Blackmore KM, Brooks JD, Bell KA, Carver T, Chang A, Chiquette J, Easton DF, Eisen A

Cancers2026

DOI: 10.3390/cancers18091482

Multilevel Estimation of the Relative Impacts of Social Determinants on Income-Related Health Inequalities in Urban Canada: Protocol for the Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Plante C, Gupta SD, Bandara T, Beland D, Blaser C, Camillo CA, de Villa E, Dutton D, Fuller D, Hasselback J

JMIR Research Protocols20251 citations

DOI: 10.2196/71929

COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences.

Wolfson M

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00917-2 PMID: 39060712

Mathematical modelling for pandemic preparedness in Canada: Learning from COVID-19

Ogden NH, Acheson ES, Brown K, Champredon D, Colijn C, Diener A, Dushoff J, Earn DJ, Gabriele-Rivet V, Gangbè M

Canada Communicable Disease Report202413 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v50i10a03

State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study

Dunn JR, Park G-R, Brydon R, Veall M, Rolheiser LA, Wolfson M, Siddiqi A, Ross NA

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health20244 citations

DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222262

Regulating cancer risk prediction: legal considerations and stakeholder perspectives on the Canadian context.

Moreno PG, Knoppers T, Zawati MH, Lang M, Knoppers BM, Wolfson M, Nabi H, Dorval M, Simard J, Joly Y

Human genetics2023

DOI: 10.1007/s00439-023-02576-8 PMID: 37365297

Using Real-World Data to Determine Health System Costs of Ontario Women Screened for Breast Cancer.

Mittmann N, Seung SJ, Diong C, Gatley JM, Wolfson M, Guertin MH, Pashayan N, Simard J, Chiarelli AM

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2022

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol29110657 PMID: 36354717

Income inequality and population health: a political-economic research agenda

Dunn JR, Park G-R, Brydon R, Wolfson M, Veall M, Rolheiser L, Siddiqi A, Ross NA

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health20225 citations

DOI: 10.1136/jech-2022-219252

Women's Views on Multifactorial Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Risk-Stratified Screening: A Population-Based Survey from Four Provinces in Canada.

Mbuya Bienge C, Pashayan N, Brooks JD, Dorval M, Chiquette J, Eloy L, Turgeon A, Lambert-Côté L, Paquette JS, Lévesque E, Hagan J, Walker MJ, Lapointe J, Dalpé G, Granados Moreno PG, Blackmore K, Wolfson M, Joly Y, Broeders M, Knoppers BM, Chiarelli AM, Simard J, Nabi H

Journal of personalized medicine2021

DOI: 10.3390/jpm11020095 PMID: 33540785

A place-based framework for equitable health service delivery

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kendall, Claire; Cameron, Erin M

Keywords: Data Visualization; Equitable Health Services; Geographic Information Systems; Health Equity; Health Service Delivery; Place-Based Approach; Quintuple Aim; Spatialized Data

$803,251

A place-based simulation model of the impact of structural determinants on health inequities

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health - General

Principal investigators: Kendall, Claire; Boyd, Rob; Jalal, Hawre

Keywords: Agent-Based Model; Built Environment; Causal Pathways; Group Model Building; Health Equity; Health Outcomes; Points-Of-Interest Data; Policy Simulation; Sociodemographic Data; Structural Determinants Of Health

$124,990

Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Bandara, Thilina; Plante, Charles

Keywords: Administrative Data; Big Data; Decomposition; Health Inequalities; Social Determinants Of Health; Urban Health

$650,251

A policy analysis of strategies to develop a pan-Canadian immunization data repository

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat G.: Policy Res. Health System Trans - IPPH - Public Health Systems Research

Principal investigators: Wilson, Kumanan

Keywords: Immunization; Policy; Public Health; Surveillance

$139,907

Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Neudorf, Cordell (Cory) O; Bandara, Thilina; de Villa, Eileen; Plante, Charles

Keywords: Administrative Data; Big Data; Decomposition; Health Inequalities; Social Determinants Of Health; Urban Health

$100,000

CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDM)

Principal investigators: Colijn, Caroline

$2,500,000

Caring Over the Lifecycle: the Roles of Families and Welfare States Today and Into the Future (WELLCARE)

Nominated PICIHR2020Team Grant: More Years / Better Lives

Principal investigators: Wolfson, Michael C

Keywords: Caring Responsiblities; Cross-National Comparisons; Demography; Disability / Functional Limitations; Dynamic Microsimulation; Interdisciplinary; Intergenerational Equity; Life Course; Policy Projections; Population Ageing

$131,943

Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDM)

Principal investigators: Murty, Vijayakumar

$3,000,000

Income Inequality and Population Health in Canada and the US, 1990-2016

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Dunn, James R

Keywords: Canada; Housing Affordability; Income Inequality; Mortality; Population Health; Public Expenditures; United States

$274,636

Impacts of evolving demography and socio-economic status on assessment of genetic risks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wolfson, Michael C.

Keywords: demography; cancer; risk stratification; microsimulation; cost-effectiveness

$202,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Michael Wolfson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Perspectives from a multi-stakeholder workshop for implementing a risk-stratified breast cancer screening program in Canada

Contribution of Risk Factors, Including Polygenic Score, to the Multifactorial Risk Assessment for the Implementation of Personalized Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the PERSPECTIVE: Integration and Implementation Project

Multilevel Estimation of the Relative Impacts of Social Determinants on Income-Related Health Inequalities in Urban Canada: Protocol for the Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences.

Mathematical modelling for pandemic preparedness in Canada: Learning from COVID-19

State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study

Regulating cancer risk prediction: legal considerations and stakeholder perspectives on the Canadian context.

Using Real-World Data to Determine Health System Costs of Ontario Women Screened for Breast Cancer.

Income inequality and population health: a political-economic research agenda

Women's Views on Multifactorial Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Risk-Stratified Screening: A Population-Based Survey from Four Provinces in Canada.

A place-based framework for equitable health service delivery

A place-based simulation model of the impact of structural determinants on health inequities

Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

A policy analysis of strategies to develop a pan-Canadian immunization data repository

Multilevel estimation of the relative impacts of social determinants on income-related health inequalities in urban Canada: Toward a new Canadian Social Determinants Urban Laboratory

CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease

Caring Over the Lifecycle: the Roles of Families and Welfare States Today and Into the Future (WELLCARE)

Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)

Income Inequality and Population Health in Canada and the US, 1990-2016

Impacts of evolving demography and socio-economic status on assessment of genetic risks

Frequent collaborators

Jacques Simard

Hermann Nabi

Yann Joly

Andrea Eisen

Andrea Eisen

Nicole Mittmann

Jennifer Brooks

Michael Veall

Arjumand Siddiqi

Jim Dunn

Thilina Bandara

Charles Plante

Caroline Colijn

Daniel Fuller

Jasmine Hasselback

June Carroll

Tracy Stockley

Ashleigh Tuite

Aisha Lofters

Meghan Walker

Sara Allin

Daniel Dutton

Geranda Notten

Michel Grignon

John Goffin

Marisa Young

William Evans

Olga Basso

Lucy Gilbert

Nazeem Muhajarine

Jean-Yves Masson

Arnaud Droit

Mark Tremblay

Julian Little

Aisha Lofters

Jonathan Dushoff

David Earn