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Alexander Zsager
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Research
Latest papers
Implementing the screening for poverty and related social determinants and intervening to improve knowledge of and links to resources (SPARK) in primary care clinics across Canada.
Family practice · 2026
Primary care provider and clinic staff perspectives on the collection of demographic and social needs data in primary care clinics across five Canadian provinces.
Family medicine and community health · 2026
Addressing housing insecurity as a social determinant of health: A systematic review of interventions in healthcare settings.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025
Latest funding
- $20,000
PRECISision prEvention in Primary Care (PRECISE Primary Care): Integrating biological, social and genomic data to support precision medicine in primary care for the prevention of key non-communicable diseases
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $200,000
Evaluating Novel Approaches that enGage And support vulnerable patient Groups to Equitably access primary care (ENGAGE): Building the foundation for a national adaptive platform trial
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
Evaluating social interventions to reduce health inequities using an adaptive platform trial situated in Canadian primary care practice-based research networks
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Implementing the screening for poverty and related social determinants and intervening to improve knowledge of and links to resources (SPARK) in primary care clinics across Canada.
Kosowan L, O'Rourke JJ, Howse D, Williams L, Adekoya I, Seshie AZ, Delahunty-Pike A, Smithman MA, Katz A, Abaga E, Zsager A, Cooney J, Robinson M, Senior DM, Aubrey-Bassler K, Marshall EG, Neudorf C, Muhajarine N, Fortuna I, Gupta A, Pinto AD
Primary care provider and clinic staff perspectives on the collection of demographic and social needs data in primary care clinics across five Canadian provinces.
Gupta A, O'Rourke JJ, Kosowan L, Howse D, Williams L, Adekoya I, Seshie AZ, Delahunty-Pike A, Smithman MA, Abaga E, Zsager A, Robinson M, Marshall EG, Aubrey-Bassler K, Neudorf C, Muhajarine N, Fortuna I, Pinto AD
Addressing housing insecurity as a social determinant of health: A systematic review of interventions in healthcare settings.
Yan H, Gallant AJ, Delahunty-Pike A, Langley JE, Zsager A, Abaga E, Ziegler C, Karabanow J, Hwang SW, Pinto AD
Validation of a standardised approach to collect sociodemographic and social needs data in Canadian primary care: cross-sectional study of the SPARK tool.
Kosowan L, Katz A, Howse D, Adekoya I, Delahunty-Pike A, Seshie AZ, Marshall EG, Aubrey-Bassler K, Abaga E, Cooney J, Robinson M, Senior D, Zsager A, O'Rourke JJ, Neudorf C, Irwin M, Muhajarine N, Pinto AD
Perspectives on Using Artificial Intelligence to Derive Social Determinants of Health Data From Medical Records in Canada: Large Multijurisdictional Qualitative Study.
Davis VH, Qiang JR, Adekoya MacCarthy I, Howse D, Seshie AZ, Kosowan L, Delahunty-Pike A, Abaga E, Cooney J, Robinson M, Senior D, Zsager A, Aubrey-Bassler K, Irwin M, Jackson LA, Katz A, Marshall EG, Muhajarine N, Neudorf C, Garies S, Pinto AD
Screening for poverty and related social determinants to improve knowledge of and links to resources (SPARK): development and cognitive testing of a tool for primary care.
Adekoya I, Delahunty-Pike A, Howse D, Kosowan L, Seshie Z, Abaga E, Cooney J, Robinson M, Senior D, Zsager A, Aubrey-Bassler K, Irwin M, Jackson L, Katz A, Marshall E, Muhajarine N, Neudorf C, Pinto AD
Improving Equity Through Primary Care: Proceedings of the 2019 Toronto International Conference on Quality in Primary Care.
O'Neill B, Ferrer R, O'Brien P, Watt G, Gottlieb L, Pinto A, Willems S, Currie J, Harriott D, Leitch J, Zsager A, Kidd M, Kiran T
PRECISision prEvention in Primary Care (PRECISE Primary Care): Integrating biological, social and genomic data to support precision medicine in primary care for the prevention of key non-communicable diseases
Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Muggah, Elizabeth; Hosseini, Benita; Persaud, Navindra; Wong, Sabrina T
Keywords: Cancer Screening; Cardiovascular Disease; Copd; Diabetes; Genomic Data; Health Equity; Prevention; Primary Health Care; Social Determinants Of Health; Vulnerable Populations
Evaluating Novel Approaches that enGage And support vulnerable patient Groups to Equitably access primary care (ENGAGE): Building the foundation for a national adaptive platform trial
Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Martin, Danielle; Green, Michael E; Hosseini, Benita; Zsager, Alexander
Keywords: Access To Care; Adaptive Platform Trial; Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial; Health Equity; Primary Care; Primary Health Care; Social Determinants Of Health; Vulnerable Populations
Evaluating social interventions to reduce health inequities using an adaptive platform trial situated in Canadian primary care practice-based research networks
Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Martin, Danielle; Hosseini, Benita; Persaud, Navindra; Zsager, Alexander
Keywords: Adaptive Platform Trial; Income; Poverty; Primary Care; Primary Health Care; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Needs; Sociodemographic Data
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
- Alan Katz and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 10 shared papers
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 6 shared papers
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Marjeiry Robinson: 5 shared papers
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Alexander Zsager: 5 shared papers
- Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Marjeiry Robinson: 5 shared papers
- Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Alexander Zsager: 5 shared papers
- Marjeiry Robinson and Alexander Zsager: 5 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Nazeem Muhajarine: 4 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Marjeiry Robinson: 4 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Alexander Zsager: 4 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Tara Kiran: 3 shared papers
- Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Stephanie Garies: 3 shared papers
- Tara Kiran and Braden O’Neill: 3 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Emily Marshall: 2 shared papers
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Archna Gupta: 2 shared papers
- Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Andrew Pinto: 2 shared papers
- Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Archna Gupta: 2 shared papers
- Marjeiry Robinson and Archna Gupta: 2 shared papers
- Archna Gupta and Alexander Zsager: 2 shared papers
- Alan Katz and Lois Jackson: 1 shared paper
- Alan Katz and Stephanie Garies: 1 shared paper
- Alan Katz and Braden O’Neill: 1 shared paper
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Lois Jackson: 1 shared paper
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Emily Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Nazeem Muhajarine and Stephanie Garies: 1 shared paper
- Jeff Karabanow and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Lois Jackson and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 1 shared paper
- Lois Jackson and Emily Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Lois Jackson and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Pinto and Tara Kiran: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Pinto and Braden O’Neill: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Pinto and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Pinto and Michael Kidd: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Pinto and Patricia O’Brien: 1 shared paper
- Emily Marshall and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Tara Kiran and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Tara Kiran and Michael Kidd: 1 shared paper
- Tara Kiran and Patricia O’Brien: 1 shared paper
- Stephanie Garies and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Braden O’Neill and Alexander Zsager: 1 shared paper
- Braden O’Neill and Michael Kidd: 1 shared paper
- Braden O’Neill and Patricia O’Brien: 1 shared paper
- Alexander Zsager and Michael Kidd: 1 shared paper
- Alexander Zsager and Patricia O’Brien: 1 shared paper
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Centre for Urban Health Solutions
- Family Medicine
- Community Health and Epidemiology
- Community Health Sciences
- Social Work
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Kris Aubrey-Bassler
Family Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Nazeem Muhajarine
Community Health and Epidemiology
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Marjeiry Robinson
Centre for Urban Health Solutions
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Alan Katz
Community Health Sciences
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Archna Gupta
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Michael Kidd
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Patricia O’Brien
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Andrew Pinto
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Emily Marshall
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Tara Kiran
Centre for Urban Health Solutions
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Lois Jackson
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Stephanie Garies
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Braden O’Neill
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Jeff Karabanow
Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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