Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa

Research

Artificial Intelligence Health Information Privacy Health Law And Policy Machine Learning Medical Devices Regulation Patient Safety

Latest papers

Public and patient perspectives on the use of clinical and administrative health data to identify and contact people at risk of future illness-The case of chronic kidney disease.
PloS one · 2024
The inadvertent disclosure of personal health information through peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2010 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Optimizing Medical Device Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$355,724
Designing a Privacy Regulatory Sandbox
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$66,667
Information Law and Policy
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$100,000

All 24 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Public and patient perspectives on the use of clinical and administrative health data to identify and contact people at risk of future illness-The case of chronic kidney disease.

Willison DJ, Nash DM, Bota SE, Almadhoun S, Scassa T, Garg AX, Kidney Patient and Donor Alliance of Canada, Young A

PloS one2024

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298382 PMID: 38427664

02

The inadvertent disclosure of personal health information through peer-to-peer file sharing programs.

El Emam K, Neri E, Jonker E, Sokolova M, Peyton L, Neisa A, Scassa T

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2010Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.000232 PMID: 20190057

Optimizing Medical Device Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Flood, Colleen M

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Comparative Law; Health Law And Policy; Machine Learning Medical Devices; Medical Device Regulation

$355,724

Designing a Privacy Regulatory Sandbox

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Scassa, Teresa

Keywords: privacy; regulation; regulatory sandbox; data protection

$66,667

Information Law and Policy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Scassa, Teresa

$100,000

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

Learning with animals: Exploring diverse rabbit-human interactions in the animal shelter

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Chan, Melvin C.H.

Keywords: environmental education; common worlds; multispecies ethnography; ethology; animal shelters; rabbits

$46,019

Who owns the map? Data sovereignty and the shifting government role in spatial data collection, use, and dissemination

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Johnson, Peter A.

Keywords: spatial data; data sovereignty; open data; digital maps; data infrastructure

$105,474

Who owns the map? Data sovereignty and the shifting government role in spatial data collection, use, and dissemination

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Johnson, Peter A.

Keywords: spatial data; data sovereignty; open data; digital maps; data infrastructure

$45,100

KidneyCare Outreach: Strengthening kidney care delivery for patients at high risk for kidney failure – the pilot study

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Wald, Ron

Keywords: Kidney Disease ; Administrative Data; Disease Identification ; Privacy ; Health Law ; Pilot Trial

$124,956

Machine M.D.: How Should We Regulate AI in Health Care?

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Flood, Colleen M; Goldenberg, Anna; Regis, Catherine; Scassa, Teresa

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Health Information Privacy; Health Law And Policy; Machine Learning; Medical Devices Regulation; Patient Safety

$378,676

The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: cybersecurity; privacy; democracy; regulation; standardization; resilience; elections; behaviour change; cybercrime; usable machines; evidence-based policies

$995,862

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

Frequent collaborators

Khaled El Emam

Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2010

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Artificial Intelligence Dear Professor Scassa, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Public and patient perspectives on the use of clinical and administrative health data to identify and contact people at risk of future illness-The case of chronic kidney disease." (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Designing a Privacy Regulatory Sandbox" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]