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Anne-Emanuelle Birn

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ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (4 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervisor on 3 trainee awards (3 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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Research

Access To Essential Medicines Comprehensive Primary Health Care Global Health Global Health Diplomacy Health Worker Migration Health Workforce Training Latin America Social Determinants Of Health

Latest papers

Anti-Black Racism in Nursing in Canada and Black Nurses' Resistance: An Analytic Review of Newspaper Coverage, 1940s-2020.
Nursing inquiry · 2026 · senior author
"If I am here, it is because the system failed": a critical qualitative study of global commercial clinical trials for advanced cancer in Chile.
Globalization and health · 2025 · senior author
Brazil's G20 leadership offers glimmers of hope for global health equity.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024

All 36 publications

Latest funding

Canadian mining, health and foreign policy: A Canada-Ecuador collaborative study of health equity impacts and narratives
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$124,244
Ontario Midwives Taking Community Centred Care to the Next Level: An critical qualitative investigation into the possibilities for addressing perinatal health inequities through accountable learning from Indigenous Midwifery in Canada and Latin American Social Medicine Social Determinants of Health practices.
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000
Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$155,490

All 12 grants and awards

36 publications.

Anti-Black Racism in Nursing in Canada and Black Nurses' Resistance: An Analytic Review of Newspaper Coverage, 1940s-2020.

Oneka G, Birn AE

Nursing inquiry2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/nin.70100 PMID: 42200700

"If I am here, it is because the system failed": a critical qualitative study of global commercial clinical trials for advanced cancer in Chile.

Fernández-González L, Rodin G, Sapunar J, Perez-Brumer A, Birn AE

Globalization and health2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12992-025-01148-x PMID: 41316359

Brazil's G20 leadership offers glimmers of hope for global health equity.

Ventura D, Birn AE, Romero RI, Knipper M

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2517 PMID: 39557484

Imagining alternative paths for WHO 75 years in.

Birn AE, Kumar R, Arteaga-Cruz E, Twala B, Baduza M

Lancet (London, England)2023First author

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)00677-3 PMID: 37031684

Participation of young women in sexual and reproductive health decision-making in Malawi: Local realities versus global rhetoric.

Wigle JM, Paul S, Birn AE, Gladstone B, Kalolo M, Banda L, Braitstein P

PLOS global public health2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001297 PMID: 36962663

Universal health coverage and public-private arrangements within Sri Lanka's mixed health system: Perspectives from women seeking healthcare.

Kumar R, Birn AE, Bhuyan R, Wong JP

Social science & medicine (1982)2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114777 PMID: 35152048

(Re-)Making a People's WHO.

Birn AE, Nervi L

American journal of public health2020First author

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2020.305806 PMID: 32673104

Youth participation in sexual and reproductive health: policy, practice, and progress in Malawi.

Wigle J, Paul S, Birn AE, Gladstone B, Braitstein P

International journal of public health2020

DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01357-8 PMID: 32270235

What matters in health (care) universes: delusions, dilutions, and ways towards universal health justice.

Birn AE, Nervi L

Globalization and health2019First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12992-019-0521-7 PMID: 31775869

Latin American social medicine across borders: South-South cooperation and the making of health solidarity.

Birn AE, Muntaner C

Global public health2019First author

DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2018.1439517 PMID: 29468938

Canadian mining, health and foreign policy: A Canada-Ecuador collaborative study of health equity impacts and narratives

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health - General

Principal investigators: Brisbois, Benjamin W; Herrera, Angela V

Keywords: Ecuador; Extractive Industry; Foreign Policy; Global Health; Health Impact Assessment; Knowledge Synthesis; Mining; Participatory Research

$124,244

Ontario Midwives Taking Community Centred Care to the Next Level: An critical qualitative investigation into the possibilities for addressing perinatal health inequities through accountable learning from Indigenous Midwifery in Canada and Latin American Social Medicine Social Determinants of Health practices.

SupervisorCIHR2023Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Nussey, Lisa

Keywords: Community Centred Care; Indigenous Midwifery; Interdisciplinary; Interpretive Descriptive; Latin American Social Medicine; Maternal Health; Native Feminist Theories; Newborn Health; Qualitative Methods; South-North Learning

$105,000

Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Trans-Atlantic Platform - Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World

Principal investigators: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle

Keywords: community mobilization; decentralized governance; global health; migrant; racialized groups; social policy; south-north learning

$155,490

Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Trans-Atlantic Platform - Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World

Principal investigators: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle

Keywords: community mobilization; decentralized governance; global health; migrant; racialized groups; social policy; south-north learning

$44,481

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: impact evaluation; partnership research; grant-making foundations; philanthropy; collective impact; philanthropic ecosystem

$2,068,800

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: impact evaluation; partnership research; grant-making foundations; philanthropy; collective impact; philanthropic ecosystem

$431,200

Health Diplomacy at a Crossroads: Social Justice-Oriented South-South Cooperation in a Time of Global Change

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Ethics

Principal investigators: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Forman, Lisa; Muntaner, Carles

Keywords: Access To Essential Medicines; Comprehensive Primary Health Care; Global Health; Global Health Diplomacy; Health Worker Migration; Health Workforce Training; Latin America; Social Determinants Of Health; South-South Cooperation; Southern And East Africa

$275,522

Reaching girls when its count: Understanding the health and well-being impacts of investing in indigenous, adolescent girls from rural Guatemala.

SupervisorCIHR2011Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Richardson, Emma Z

Keywords: Health

$6,000

Globalization, Urbanization and the Social Determinants of Health: Pathways and Solutions

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI

Principal investigators: Labonté, Ronald

Keywords: Comprehensive Primary Health Care; Food Security; Global Health; Globalization; Health And Foreign Policy; Human Rights; Social Determinants Of Health; Urban Health; Urbanization; Water And Sanitation

$15,000

Reaching girls when it counts: Understanding the public health impacts of providing rural, indigenous, adolescent girls in Guatemala with greater social capital, including friend networks and access to alternate mentors, information providers and role models.

SupervisorCIHR2008Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Richardson, Emma Z

Keywords: Adolescent Girls; Behaviour Change Theory; Friend Networks; Gender-Based Differences; Guatemala; Indigenous; Marginalized Groups; Programme Evaluation; Sexual And Reproductive Health; Social Capital

$105,000

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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Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Anti-Black Racism in Nursing in Canada and Black Nurses' Resistance: An Analytic Review of Newspaper Coverage, 1940s-2020.

"If I am here, it is because the system failed": a critical qualitative study of global commercial clinical trials for advanced cancer in Chile.

Brazil's G20 leadership offers glimmers of hope for global health equity.

Imagining alternative paths for WHO 75 years in.

Participation of young women in sexual and reproductive health decision-making in Malawi: Local realities versus global rhetoric.

Universal health coverage and public-private arrangements within Sri Lanka's mixed health system: Perspectives from women seeking healthcare.

(Re-)Making a People's WHO.

Youth participation in sexual and reproductive health: policy, practice, and progress in Malawi.

What matters in health (care) universes: delusions, dilutions, and ways towards universal health justice.

Latin American social medicine across borders: South-South cooperation and the making of health solidarity.

Canadian mining, health and foreign policy: A Canada-Ecuador collaborative study of health equity impacts and narratives

Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance

Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Health Diplomacy at a Crossroads: Social Justice-Oriented South-South Cooperation in a Time of Global Change

Reaching girls when its count: Understanding the health and well-being impacts of investing in indigenous, adolescent girls from rural Guatemala.

Globalization, Urbanization and the Social Determinants of Health: Pathways and Solutions

Reaching girls when it counts: Understanding the public health impacts of providing rural, indigenous, adolescent girls in Guatemala with greater social capital, including friend networks and access to alternate mentors, information providers and role models.

Frequent collaborators

Carles Muntaner

Brenda Gladstone

Ronald Labonté

Gary Rodin

Blake Poland

Amaya Perez-Brumer