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Adalsteinn Brown

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Adalsteinn Brown

Professor

Medicine

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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19 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Publications

111

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Grants

Publications by year

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Education

D.Phil
AB

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Research

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Health policy

Latest papers

A qualitative assessment of the use of artificial intelligence in public sector health organisations in Ontario, Canada.
Swiss medical weekly · 2026
Enriched core competencies for health services and policy research-An update.
Learning health systems · 2026 · senior author
Effects of a comprehensive antibiotic stewardship program on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in rural facilities: a cluster randomized trial.
Nature medicine · 2026

All 39 publications

Latest funding

Use (or misuse?) of GLP-1 medications in older adults with diabetes: Examining CLSA linked health administrative data
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$70,000
Modelling patterns of illness to inform provincial healthcare capacity planning
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$451,350
Transforming health systems in Canada: A comparative realist case study evaluation of macro-level health system governance reforms
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$546,976

All 19 grants and awards

39 publications.

A qualitative assessment of the use of artificial intelligence in public sector health organisations in Ontario, Canada.

Habbous S, Herring J, Badiani T, Brown A, Hillmer M, Rosella LC

Swiss medical weekly2026

DOI: 10.57187/4942 PMID: 41962065

Enriched core competencies for health services and policy research-An update.

McMahon M, Boateng R, Glazier RH, Bornstein S, Johnson S, Dubois CA, Menear M, Sampalli T, Wasylak T, Marshall D, Roy D, Singal D, Brown A

Learning health systems2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.70032 PMID: 41560985

Effects of a comprehensive antibiotic stewardship program on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in rural facilities: a cluster randomized trial.

Wei X, Zhuo C, Hicks JP, Zhang Z, Wu S, Walley JD, Zheng J, Guo W, Huang H, Sullivan F, Brown A, Zhong N

Nature medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04222-y PMID: 41703293

Preparing for resilience — Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

Haldane V, Beckett A, Engels P, Forestier C, Gomez D, Klein D, Pedlar D, Puri M, Redpath D, Robb A

Canadian Journal of Public Health20261 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01106-5

The surprising politics of learning health systems.

Brown A, Reid RJ

Learning health systems2025First author

DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.70008 PMID: 40677609

Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners' perspectives in Canada.

Iyamu I, Ramachandran S, Chang HJ, Kushniruk A, Ibáñez-Carrasco F, Worthington C, Davies H, McKee G, Brown A, Gilbert M

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-21089-1 PMID: 39794767

Building the Workforce's Capacity to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Environmental Scan of Training Programs for Digital Technologies in Public Health.

Iyamu I, Ramachandran S, Chang HJ, Kushniruk A, Ibáñez-Carrasco F, Worthington C, Davies H, McKee G, Brown A, Gilbert M

JMIR public health and surveillance2025

DOI: 10.2196/73088 PMID: 41092408

Resiliency of the Ontario health care system to care for casualties due to conflict with a near-peer adversary: A population-based modeling study.

Gomez D, Wilton AS, Brown A, Black B, Haas B, Mason S, Journeay WS, Beckett A, Stukel TA

The journal of trauma and acute care surgery2025

DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000004627 PMID: 40269336

Definition and key concepts of high-performing health systems: a scoping review.

Cho V, Trowbridge J, Perreira T, Sodhi S, Karsan A, Hassan H, Perrier L, Prokopy M, Dale A, Brown A

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094124 PMID: 40623738

A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Puri M, Veillard JH, Brown A, Klein D

BMJ global health2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015136 PMID: 39521454

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Adalsteinn Brown

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A qualitative assessment of the use of artificial intelligence in public sector health organisations in Ontario, Canada.

Enriched core competencies for health services and policy research-An update.

Effects of a comprehensive antibiotic stewardship program on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in rural facilities: a cluster randomized trial.

Preparing for resilience — Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

The surprising politics of learning health systems.

Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners' perspectives in Canada.

Building the Workforce's Capacity to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Environmental Scan of Training Programs for Digital Technologies in Public Health.

Resiliency of the Ontario health care system to care for casualties due to conflict with a near-peer adversary: A population-based modeling study.

Definition and key concepts of high-performing health systems: a scoping review.

A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)

Frequent collaborators

Audrey Laporte

David Klein

Catherine Worthington

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

J Michael Paterson

Mark Gilbert

Monica Taljaard

Jenna Evans

Noah Ivers

Wendy Lou

David Wasserstein

Stephen Bornstein

Noah Ivers

Kumanan Wilson

Tracy Wasylak

James Orbinski

Xiaolin Wei

Matthew Menear

Tracey O'Sullivan

Michael Hillmer

Vivek Goel

Deborah Cohen

Michael Hillmer

Melissa Prokopy

Malcolm King

Tai Huynh

Anna Gagliardi

Paul Engels

David Henry

Jennifer Gibson

Alan Forster

Deborah Marshall

Howard Hu

Arthur Slutsky