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Sathya Karunananthan

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Associate ProfessorInterdisciplinary Health SciencesUniversity of Ottawa

Sathya Karunananthan

Associate Professor

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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27 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 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Publications

147

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Research

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Big Data Health Equity Health Services Language Linguistic Minorities Access To Care Dementia Electronic Consultation

Latest papers

Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions.
Research synthesis methods · 2026
Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada.
BMJ open · 2026
Review of current research practices in social and structural determinants of health data collection in Canadian longitudinal cohorts of aging and dementia.
Neurobiology of aging · 2026

All 39 publications

Latest funding

Evaluating the implementation, experience, and economic impact of FAST clinics for early-stage Parkinson's disease: a mixed-methods study within a learning health system framework
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$108,500
Evidence and Gap Maps for health equity: A strategic tool to drive transformative health research priorities
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$493,424
Understanding and improving the use of acute care hospitals for older adults in retirement homes
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$455,176

All 10 grants and awards

39 publications.

Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions.

Hamilton DG, McKenzie JE, Nguyen PY, Rethlefsen ML, McDonald S, Brennan SE, Fidler FM, Higgins JPT, Kanukula R, Karunananthan S, Maxwell LJ, Moher D, Nakagawa S, Nunan D, Tugwell P, Welch VA, Page MJ

Research synthesis methods2026

DOI: 10.1017/rsm.2025.10064 PMID: 41992899

Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada.

Belanger C, Timony PE, Bélizaire A, Desilets A, Fitzsimon JP, Gauthier AP, Godfrey L, Karunananthan S, Kehoe MacLeod K, Muray MN, Peixoto C, Bjerre LM

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-099965 PMID: 41932705

Review of current research practices in social and structural determinants of health data collection in Canadian longitudinal cohorts of aging and dementia.

Tremblay SA, Tulsi J, Yang D, Alsibai Z, McDonald I, Aladeeb R, Novielli A, Wong TYM, Freitas JG, Miller M, Dhir V, Natasha Rajah M, Godard-Sebillotte C, Altuntur S, Karunananthan S, Geddes MR

Neurobiology of aging2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2026.06.005 PMID: 42322668

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

Dalsania KA, Ménard A, Sundararaman S, Rahgozar A, de Lima S, Lu X, Al-Ali A, Singh K, Hakimjavadi R, Yan H, Sethuram C, Bergman H, LaPlante J, McIsaac D, Rahimi SA, Sourial N, Thandi M, Wong S, Liddy C, Bandeen-Roche K, Karunananthan S

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70387 PMID: 41845582

What are the primary care physicians and cardiologists talking about? a cross-sectional analysis of two telemedicine services in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Graever L, Karunananthan S, Abitbol RA, de Castro da Silva GP, Dos Santos LPR, Dias MB, Melo MM, da Fonseca VBP, Savassi LCM, Issa AFC, Frølich A, Gomes MK, Silva JRLE, Liddy C, Dominguez H

BMC primary care2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12875-025-02989-6 PMID: 41053541

Digital Learning Tools in Postgraduate Family Medicine Training: A Scoping Review.

Shoppoff L, Archibald D, Bradley L, Dalsania K, Deyell T, Hakimjavadi R, Hum E, Jolin-Dahel K, Karunananthan S, Ragozar A, Rezaiefar P, Sethuram C, Yan H, Liddy C

Family medicine2025

DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2025.399235 PMID: 41854702

Development of digital learning tools for medical education with agile scrum methodology.

Puncher JS, Karunananthan S, Amrani S, Archibald D, Brunet N, Forgues-Martel S, Hajjar A, Helmer-Smith M, Jolin-Dahel K, McCutcheon T, Seale E, Sethuram C, Shoppoff L, Trincoa-Batra S, Rezaiefar P, Duval M, Orabi AH, Liddy C

BMC medical education2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-025-08270-9 PMID: 41398946

Rethinking the way we measure access to language-concordant health services for minority language populations: a secondary analysis of publicly available physician and population data in Ontario, Canada.

Timony PE, Belanger C, Bélizaire A, Desilets A, Gauthier A, Karunananthan S, Muray MN, Peixoto C, Fitzsimon JP, Godfrey L, Bjerre LM

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100610 PMID: 41093352

Prioritizing Protecting Oneself Over the COVID-19 Virus Versus Other Health and Social Needs Among Older Adults Living Alone: A Qualitative Study.

Develay É, Dassieu L, Beauchet O, Galery K, Quesnel-Vallée A, Karunananthan S, Godard-Sebillotte C, Archambault P, Launay C, Tchouaket É, Puzhko S, Holyoke P, Sourial N

The Gerontologist2024

DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnae089 PMID: 39046833

Maintaining independence in older adults.

Karunananthan S, Hakimjavadi R, Konnyu K

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024First author

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q592 PMID: 38514071

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Sathya Karunananthan

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions.

Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada.

Review of current research practices in social and structural determinants of health data collection in Canadian longitudinal cohorts of aging and dementia.

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

What are the primary care physicians and cardiologists talking about? a cross-sectional analysis of two telemedicine services in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Digital Learning Tools in Postgraduate Family Medicine Training: A Scoping Review.

Development of digital learning tools for medical education with agile scrum methodology.

Rethinking the way we measure access to language-concordant health services for minority language populations: a secondary analysis of publicly available physician and population data in Ontario, Canada.

Prioritizing Protecting Oneself Over the COVID-19 Virus Versus Other Health and Social Needs Among Older Adults Living Alone: A Qualitative Study.

Maintaining independence in older adults.

Frequent collaborators

Clare Liddy

David Moher

Peter Tugwell

Brigitte Vachon

Claire Godard-Sebillotte

Nadia Sourial

Nadia Sourial

Erin Keely

Kheira Jolin-Dahel

Olivier Beauchet

Douglas Archibald

Howard Bergman

Celeste Fung

Olivier Beauchet

Sathya Karunananthan

Krystal Kehoe MacLeod

Kevin Pottie

Patrick Archambault

Jamie Brehaut

Isabelle Vedel

Isabelle Vedel

Timothy Ramsay

Allen Huang

Naomi Tschirhart

Peter Walker

Peter Tanuseputro

Janet Jull