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Amy McPherson

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Associate ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Amy McPherson

Associate Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (4 SSHRC, 4 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Publications

269

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Grants

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Research

Disability Obesity Child, Youth And Family Engagement In Research Patient-Oriented Research Health Promotion Mixed Methods Communication Scoping Review

Latest papers

Engaging families, enhancing research: optimizing rehabilitation research through co-creation of a Family Engagement in Research Framework.
Disability and rehabilitation · 2025
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities in Canada: a qualitative study.
Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2024
I Work Out, Who Cares if I'm Bigger: What Matters to Youth with ASD regarding Weight and Their Bodies?
Developmental neurorehabilitation · 2020 · senior author

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Disability and Hysterectomy: A Multi-Methods Study in Ontario
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$573,752
Reimagining Disability in a Digital World: How do disabled youth navigate, experience and express their sexuality in digital environments?
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$398,963
Integrating Parental Mental Wellness Supports into a Caregiver-Mediated Early Intervention Program for Toddlers with Emerging Autism: Caregiver and Child Outcomes
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$757,352

All 16 grants and awards

14 publications.

Engaging families, enhancing research: optimizing rehabilitation research through co-creation of a Family Engagement in Research Framework.

Provvidenza CF, Tanel N, Ho C, Jorisch S, Comito M, McPherson A, Chau T, Hickling A, Mallory KD, Scratch SE

Disability and rehabilitation2025

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2479657 PMID: 40130443

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities in Canada: a qualitative study.

Evans M, Rego A, Ogbonna N, Welsh K, Zafar SK, Barker LC, Berndl A, Mont JD, Lunsky Y, McPherson A, Tarasoff LA, Vandermorris A, Brown HK

Sexual and reproductive health matters2024

DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2024.2441027 PMID: 39668741

I Work Out, Who Cares if I'm Bigger: What Matters to Youth with ASD regarding Weight and Their Bodies?

Walker M, Nixon S, Haines J, McPherson A

Developmental neurorehabilitation2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17518423.2019.1687596 PMID: 31684786

Positive Distraction in Pediatric Healthcare Waiting Spaces: Sharing Play Not Germs through Inclusive, Hands-Free Interactive Media.

Biddiss E, Knibbe TJ, Fehlings D, McKeever P, McPherson A

Developmental neurorehabilitation2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17518423.2018.1518351 PMID: 30235044

Program opportunities of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities

King G, McPherson A, Mosleh D, Hartman L, Rapley J, Pinto M

Research in Developmental Disabilities201812 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.09.003

Interactive media as a tool for reducing waiting anxiety at paediatric rehabilitation hospitals: a randomized controlled trial.

Biddiss E, Knibbe TJ, Fehlings D, Mckeever P, Cohen A, Mcpherson A

Developmental medicine and child neurology2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.13646 PMID: 29243805

Mobile Apps for Weight Management: A Scoping Review

Rivera J, McPherson A, Hamilton J, Birken C, Coons M, Iyer S, Agarwal A, Lalloo C, Stinson J

JMIR mHealth and uHealth2016172 citations

DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5115

Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities: A pilot study of program opportunities, intervention strategies, and youth experiences

King G, Kingsnorth S, McPherson A, Jones-Galley K, Pinto M, Fellin M, Timbrell N, Savage D

Research in Developmental Disabilities201621 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2016.04.014

Youth and parents' experiences of a new inter-agency transition model for spina bifida compared to youth who did not take part in the model.

Lindsay S, Fellin M, Cruickshank H, McPherson A, Maxwell J

Disability and health journal2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2016.05.009 PMID: 27346055

Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: service providers’ perceptions of experiential benefits and key program features

King G, McPherson A, Kingsnorth S, Stewart D, Glencross-Eimantas T, Gorter JW, Jones-Galley K, Morrison A, Isihi AM

Disability and Rehabilitation201523 citations

DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2014.949353

Disability and Hysterectomy: A Multi-Methods Study in Ontario

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Brown, Hilary; Brennand, Erin A

Keywords: Disability; Health Services Research; Hysterectomy; Population-Based Data; Qualitative Interviews; Women'S Health

$573,752

Reimagining Disability in a Digital World: How do disabled youth navigate, experience and express their sexuality in digital environments?

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McPherson, Amy C.

$398,963

Integrating Parental Mental Wellness Supports into a Caregiver-Mediated Early Intervention Program for Toddlers with Emerging Autism: Caregiver and Child Outcomes

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Brian, Jessica A

Keywords: Autism; Caregiver Wellbeing; Caregiver-Mediated; Early Intervention; Mental Health; Toddlers

$757,352

We are sexual too: A partnership to support the intimate citizenship of disabled youth across Canada by mobilizing knowledge about sexuality and disability

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: McPherson, Amy C.

Keywords: sexuality; disability; youth; stigma

$131,351

We are sexual too: A partnership to support the intimate citizenship of disabled youth across Canada by mobilizing knowledge about sexuality and disability

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: McPherson, Amy C.

Keywords: sexuality; disability; youth; stigma

$68,546

Decolonizing Childhood Disability: Exploring the Health Care Experiences of Racialized Children with Disabilities from the Perspective of Policy, Patients, Parents, Health Providers, and Health Policymakers

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Moola, Fiona

Keywords: Childhood Disability; Children; Decolonizing Research; Health Care Staff; Parents/Caregivers; Policy Makers; Qualitative Research; Racial And Culturally Sensitive Health Care; Racialized People; Youth

$180,000

Impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disabilities in Canada: A life course perspective

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr: Emer. COVID Res. Gaps/Prior- Dif. Impacts on Hist. Excl/Underserved Pops

Principal investigators: Brown, Hilary; Abbas, Jihan; Brayton, Bonnie L

Keywords: Child Health; Covid-19; Disability; Maternal Health; Reproductive Health; Sexual Health

$227,923

Connect to Create: Mobilizing knowledge of sexuality in children and young people with disabilities to create capacity across Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Connection Grants

Principal investigators: McPherson, Amy C.

Keywords: sexuality; disability; stigma

$32,087

Patient and family engagement in pediatric research - a robust program of training and practice

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Training Grant: SPOR National Training Entity - LOI

Principal investigators: Chau, Tom; Mcpherson, Amy

Keywords: Child, Youth And Family Engagement In Research; Patient-Oriented Research

$1,624

The Sun Life Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Toolkit for Health Care Professionals

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Hamilton, Jill K

Keywords: 5as Of Pediatric Weight Management; Health Care Professionals; Knowledge Translation; Medical Education; Obesity; Patient-Oriented; Primary Care Physician; Self-Efficacy; Type 2 Diabetes; Video-Based Learning

$39,996

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

Profile data last refreshed on July 30, 2025 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Amy McPherson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Engaging families, enhancing research: optimizing rehabilitation research through co-creation of a Family Engagement in Research Framework.

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities in Canada: a qualitative study.

I Work Out, Who Cares if I'm Bigger: What Matters to Youth with ASD regarding Weight and Their Bodies?

Positive Distraction in Pediatric Healthcare Waiting Spaces: Sharing Play Not Germs through Inclusive, Hands-Free Interactive Media.

Program opportunities of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities

Interactive media as a tool for reducing waiting anxiety at paediatric rehabilitation hospitals: a randomized controlled trial.

Mobile Apps for Weight Management: A Scoping Review

Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with physical disabilities: A pilot study of program opportunities, intervention strategies, and youth experiences

Youth and parents' experiences of a new inter-agency transition model for spina bifida compared to youth who did not take part in the model.

Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: service providers’ perceptions of experiential benefits and key program features

Disability and Hysterectomy: A Multi-Methods Study in Ontario

Reimagining Disability in a Digital World: How do disabled youth navigate, experience and express their sexuality in digital environments?

Integrating Parental Mental Wellness Supports into a Caregiver-Mediated Early Intervention Program for Toddlers with Emerging Autism: Caregiver and Child Outcomes

We are sexual too: A partnership to support the intimate citizenship of disabled youth across Canada by mobilizing knowledge about sexuality and disability

We are sexual too: A partnership to support the intimate citizenship of disabled youth across Canada by mobilizing knowledge about sexuality and disability

Decolonizing Childhood Disability: Exploring the Health Care Experiences of Racialized Children with Disabilities from the Perspective of Policy, Patients, Parents, Health Providers, and Health Policymakers

Impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disabilities in Canada: A life course perspective

Connect to Create: Mobilizing knowledge of sexuality in children and young people with disabilities to create capacity across Canada

Patient and family engagement in pediatric research - a robust program of training and practice

The Sun Life Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Toolkit for Health Care Professionals

Frequent collaborators

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Gillian King

Elaine Biddiss

Darcy Fehlings

Andrea Morrison

Jan Willem Gorter

Jess Haines

Chitra Lalloo

Tom Chau

Ashley Vandermorris

Jill Hamilton

Yona Lunsky

Catherine Birken

Sally Lindsay

Arnav Agarwal

Jennifer Stinson

Yona Lunsky