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Amrita Daftary

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Associate ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Amrita Daftary

Associate Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 11 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2015.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Tuberculosis Adherence Drug-Resistance Feasibility Study Implementation Science Mdr-Tb Mixed Methods Patient Centred Care

Latest papers

Characterizing the Dual Burden of Stigma in People With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in South Africa: A mixed-methods, Prospective Cohort Study.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026
Association of community sociodemographic and tuberculosis-related factors with variability in community-level tuberculosis stigma in South Africa: an ecological analysis from the MISSED TB Outcomes study.
BMJ open · 2026
Tuberculosis in Tibetan refugee settlements in India: a human rights perspective.
Frontiers in public health · 2026 · senior author

All 43 publications

Latest funding

Functional Outcomes, Lung health, and Livelihood Outcomes among people With Tuberculosis (FOLLOW-TB): a pan-Canadian prospective cohort study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$2,945,248
Access to care and the economic burden of tuberculosis in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic: illuminating inequities to support public health policy
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$99,939
Community health workers and cultural safety training in tuberculosis prevention & care in Nunavik: a patient-oriented, participatory research program
CIHR · 2019 · Supervisor
$232,500

All 6 grants and awards

43 publications.

Characterizing the Dual Burden of Stigma in People With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in South Africa: A mixed-methods, Prospective Cohort Study.

Reis K, Lu X, Seepamore B, Wolf A, Zulu M, Nyilana H, Guzman K, Cheung K, Friedland G, Yushkov J, Perumal R, Naidoo K, Padayatchi N, Daftary A, Zelnick J, O'Donnell MR, Amico KR

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2026

DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000003835 PMID: 41627851

Association of community sociodemographic and tuberculosis-related factors with variability in community-level tuberculosis stigma in South Africa: an ecological analysis from the MISSED TB Outcomes study.

Kipp AM, Olivier D, Skonje N, Majiza L, Free E, Preacher KJ, Ngcelwane N, Daftary A, Medina-Marino A

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106835 PMID: 42167947

Tuberculosis in Tibetan refugee settlements in India: a human rights perspective.

Yanga N, Hynie M, Quach H, Vorstermans J, Daftary A

Frontiers in public health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1799708 PMID: 42145517

Socio-ecological vulnerability subgroups predict adherence and treatment outcomes in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV: a latent class analysis.

Guzman KJ, Wolf A, Perumal R, Lu X, Boodhram R, Seepamore B, Reis K, Amico KR, Friedland G, Zelnick JR, Daftary A, Cummings M, Padayatchi N, Naidoo K, O'Donnell M

BMC infectious diseases2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13401-8 PMID: 42062935

Quality of life among people with tuberculosis in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a qualitative study.

Bedingfield N, Fiphaza K, Girma M, Majiza L, De Vos L, Olivier D, Kipp AM, Medina-Marino A, Daftary A

BMC global and public health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s44263-026-00258-x PMID: 41821114

A discourse analysis of social inequities, gender, and stigma in tuberculosis policies of seven countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

Valdivino M, de Vaulgrenant A, Horstman K, Chorna Y, Stein R, Chikovore J, Daftary A, Engel N

Global health action2025

DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2025.2547150 PMID: 40910864

Person-centred care for people with tuberculosis-associated comorbidities: a multi-country qualitative study.

Law S, Baddeley A, Carlqvist A, Mavhunga F, Viney K, Daftary A

BMJ open2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106529 PMID: 41314841

The impact of Undetectable=Untransmittable and viral suppression on condomless sex among mixed HIV-status couples in Canada.

Xi M, Bullock S, Mendelsohn JB, Moravan V, Burchell AN, Tan DHS, Lebouché B, Routy JP, Daftary A, Thompson T, Calzavara L

PloS one2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0332926 PMID: 41066441

Provider perspectives on empirical antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis-like symptoms in South Africa's private general practice sector: A qualitative study in two cities.

Chikovore J, Boffa J, Moyo S, Mak A, Gavu Z, Salomon A, Pai M, Daftary A

PLOS global public health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004742 PMID: 40554547

Aligning Health Promotion Principles With Health Behavior Practice: Experiences With Qualitative Tuberculosis Research.

Bedingfield N, Oga-Omenka C, Mantell JE, Masvawure TB, Furin J, McDowell A, Engel N, Daftary A

American journal of health promotion : AJHP2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08901171251332450c PMID: 40296570

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Amrita Daftary

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Characterizing the Dual Burden of Stigma in People With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in South Africa: A mixed-methods, Prospective Cohort Study.

Association of community sociodemographic and tuberculosis-related factors with variability in community-level tuberculosis stigma in South Africa: an ecological analysis from the MISSED TB Outcomes study.

Tuberculosis in Tibetan refugee settlements in India: a human rights perspective.

Socio-ecological vulnerability subgroups predict adherence and treatment outcomes in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV: a latent class analysis.

Quality of life among people with tuberculosis in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a qualitative study.

A discourse analysis of social inequities, gender, and stigma in tuberculosis policies of seven countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

Person-centred care for people with tuberculosis-associated comorbidities: a multi-country qualitative study.

The impact of Undetectable=Untransmittable and viral suppression on condomless sex among mixed HIV-status couples in Canada.

Provider perspectives on empirical antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis-like symptoms in South Africa's private general practice sector: A qualitative study in two cities.

Aligning Health Promotion Principles With Health Behavior Practice: Experiences With Qualitative Tuberculosis Research.

Functional Outcomes, Lung health, and Livelihood Outcomes among people With Tuberculosis (FOLLOW-TB): a pan-Canadian prospective cohort study

Access to care and the economic burden of tuberculosis in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic: illuminating inequities to support public health policy

Community health workers and cultural safety training in tuberculosis prevention & care in Nunavik: a patient-oriented, participatory research program

Enhancing adherence to treatment for multi and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa through a locally informed, patient centred model of care

HIV serodiscordant couples in Canada: a mixed-methods study of risk management, health and wellbeing for people living with HIV and their partners

Social and ethical challenges to HIV and tuberculosis health care: expanding the discourse on integration via roundtable discussion at the 6th South African AIDS Conference

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Madhukar Pai

Mona Loutfy

Stephanie Law

Giorgia Sulis

Ted Myers

Dan Allman

Jean-Pierre Routy

Irving Salit

Wangari Tharao

Rupert Kaul

Pamela Roach

Pamela Roach

Ann Burchell

Charity Oga-Omenka

Michaela Hynie

Jean-Pierre Routy

Darrell Tan

Wangari Tharao

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