Daniel Warshafsky, University of Toronto

Research

Agricultural Worker Avian Influenza Co-Design Community-Engaged Research Farmer Farms Outbreak Management Pandemic

Latest papers

Antimicrobial stewardship: coming to a community pharmacy near you? A cross-sectional study to understand the perspectives of pharmacists, prescribers and the public
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology · 2026
Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings
BMJ Open · 2025
Community Mobilization to Guide the Public Health Response During the 2022 Ontario Mpox Outbreak: A Brief Report.
Open forum infectious diseases · 2024

All 3 publications

Latest funding

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$3,411,901
Engaging Canada's farmers and agricultural workers in surveillance and containment of pandemics
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$150,000
Evaluating delivery of priority public health interventions to people experiencing homelessness in Toronto by peer workers
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$742,490

All 6 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Antimicrobial stewardship: coming to a community pharmacy near you? A cross-sectional study to understand the perspectives of pharmacists, prescribers and the public

Langford BJ, Vigneswaran S, Daneman N, Ha R, Ho C, Ko L, Leung V, Levinson W, Maximos M, Neudorf K

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1017/ash.2026.10410

02

Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings

Hosseini B, Condon A, da Costa BR, Daley P, Greiver M, Jüni P, Lee TC, McBrien K, McDonald EG, Murthy S

BMJ Open20256 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097134

03

Community Mobilization to Guide the Public Health Response During the 2022 Ontario Mpox Outbreak: A Brief Report.

Tan DHS, Awad A, Zygmunt A, Murray J, Warshafsky D, Mishra S, Griffiths D

Open forum infectious diseases2024

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae195 PMID: 39415827

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Morris, Shaun K; Boucoiran, Isabelle; Lavoie, Pascal; Li, Patricia T; Sadarangani, Manish; Sander, Beate H; Shapiro, Gilla

Keywords: Immunization; Infancy; Pregnancy; Respiratory Syncytial Virus

$3,411,901

Engaging Canada's farmers and agricultural workers in surveillance and containment of pandemics

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Cat. Grant: Partnering for Impact - Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies

Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Warshafsky, Daniel A; Hosseini, Benita

Keywords: Agricultural Worker; Avian Influenza; Co-Design; Community-Engaged Research; Farmer; Farms; Outbreak Management; Pandemic; Qualitative Research; Surveillance

$150,000

Evaluating delivery of priority public health interventions to people experiencing homelessness in Toronto by peer workers

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Team Gr.: Strengt. Health Workforce for System Transf.:Public Health Workforce

Principal investigators: Orkin, Aaron M; Kouyoumdjian, Fiona G; Baral, Stefan D

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Evaluation And Measurement; Peer Workers; People Experiencing Homelessness; Public Health Service Delivery; Quintuple Aim

$742,490

Canadian ADAptive Platform Trial of COVID-19 Therapeutics in Community Settings (Can-ADAPT COVID)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutic Studies

Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Keynan, Yoav; Greiver, Michelle; Jüni, Peter; Lee, Todd C; McDonald, Emily G; Murthy, Srinivas; Selby, Peter L

Keywords: Adaptive Platform Trial; Covid-19; Nirmatrelvir; Out-Patient; Sars-Cov-2; Therapeutics

$5,000,000

Canadian ADAptive Platform Trial of COVID-19 Therapeutics in Community Settings (Can-ADAPT COVID)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutic Studies - Indirect Costs

Principal investigators: Pinto, Andrew D; Keynan, Yoav; Greiver, Michelle; Jüni, Peter; Lee, Todd C; McDonald, Emily G; Murthy, Srinivas; Selby, Peter L

Keywords: Adaptive Platform Trial; Covid-19; Nirmatrelvir; Out-Patient; Sars-Cov-2; Therapeutics

$1,250,000

Primary Care-Led Governance Models: A Comparative Policy Analysis of three Canadian Jurisdictions

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr.: Policy Research for HST - IHSPR - Health Care Policy Res./Systems Res.

Principal investigators: Aggarwal, Monica; Surani, Nadia; Aghajafari, Fariba; Contandriopoulos, Damien; Koops, Joel; Upshur, Ross E

Keywords: Health Human Resource Planning; Health Services Delivery; Integrated Care; Policy Research; Policy Triangle Framework; Population Health Management; Primary Care Governance

$148,773

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

Aisha Lofters and Aisha Lofters: 134 shared papers
Jennifer Rayner and Jennifer Rayner: 43 shared papers
Jennifer Rayner and Jennifer Rayner: 43 shared papers
Jennifer Rayner and Jennifer Rayner: 43 shared papers
Certina Ho and Certina Ho: 26 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Derelie A Mangin: 9 shared papers
Derelie A Mangin and Alexander Singer: 7 shared papers
Catherine Hudon and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 6 shared papers
Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Aisha Lofters: 6 shared papers
Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Aisha Lofters: 6 shared papers
Derelie A Mangin and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 5 shared papers
Kerry McBrien and Aisha Lofters: 5 shared papers
Kerry McBrien and Aisha Lofters: 5 shared papers
Catherine Hudon and Alexander Singer: 4 shared papers
Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Kerry McBrien: 4 shared papers
Brendan Barrett and Kris Aubrey-Bassler: 3 shared papers
Aisha Lofters and Jennifer Rayner: 3 shared papers
Aisha Lofters and Jennifer Rayner: 3 shared papers
Aisha Lofters and Jennifer Rayner: 3 shared papers
Bradley Langford and Certina Ho: 2 shared papers
Bradley Langford and Certina Ho: 2 shared papers
Kerry McBrien and Alexander Singer: 2 shared papers
Aisha Lofters and Jennifer Hulme: 2 shared papers
Aisha Lofters and Jennifer Hulme: 2 shared papers
Bradley Langford and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Catherine Hudon: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Jennifer Isenor: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Brendan Barrett: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Machelle Wilchesky: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Abhimanyu Sud: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and David Barber: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Melissa Andrew: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Annie LeBlanc: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Brianne Wood: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Jennifer Hulme: 1 shared paper
Jean-Eric Tarride and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Certina Ho and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Jennifer Isenor: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Brendan Barrett: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Machelle Wilchesky: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Abhimanyu Sud: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and David Barber: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Melissa Andrew: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Annie LeBlanc: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Brianne Wood: 1 shared paper
Derelie A Mangin and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Jennifer Isenor: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Machelle Wilchesky: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Abhimanyu Sud: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and David Barber: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Melissa Andrew: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Annie LeBlanc: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Brianne Wood: 1 shared paper
Catherine Hudon and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Isenor and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
James Murray and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Brendan Barrett and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Kris Aubrey-Bassler and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Kerry McBrien and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Aisha Lofters and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Aisha Lofters and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Machelle Wilchesky and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Rayner and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Abhimanyu Sud and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Alexander Singer and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
David Barber and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Melissa Andrew and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Annie LeBlanc and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Brianne Wood and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Rayner and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Hulme and Daniel Warshafsky: 1 shared paper
Daniel Warshafsky and Jennifer Rayner: 1 shared paper
Daniel Warshafsky and Certina Ho: 1 shared paper

Family Medicine
Nursing
Community Health Sciences
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Medicine
Clinical Public Health Division
Family and Community Medicine
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1 shared papers, latest 2025

Aisha Lofters

Department of Family and Community Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Agricultural Worker Dear Professor Warshafsky, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Antimicrobial stewardship: coming to a community pharmacy near you? A cross-sectional study to understand the perspectives of pharmacists, prescribers and the public" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Engaging Canada's farmers and agricultural workers in surveillance and containment of pandemics" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

Daniel Warshafsky

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Antimicrobial stewardship: coming to a community pharmacy near you? A cross-sectional study to understand the perspectives of pharmacists, prescribers and the public

Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings

Community Mobilization to Guide the Public Health Response During the 2022 Ontario Mpox Outbreak: A Brief Report.

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization

Engaging Canada's farmers and agricultural workers in surveillance and containment of pandemics

Evaluating delivery of priority public health interventions to people experiencing homelessness in Toronto by peer workers

Canadian ADAptive Platform Trial of COVID-19 Therapeutics in Community Settings (Can-ADAPT COVID)

Canadian ADAptive Platform Trial of COVID-19 Therapeutics in Community Settings (Can-ADAPT COVID)

Primary Care-Led Governance Models: A Comparative Policy Analysis of three Canadian Jurisdictions

Frequent collaborators

Jennifer Rayner

Certina Ho

Rahim Moineddin

Miranda So

Bradley Langford

Jean-Eric Tarride

Ross Upshur

Certina Ho

Derelie A Mangin

Ryan Zarychanski

Simone Dahrouge

Melissa Andrew

Robert Fowler

Catherine Hudon

Sharmistha Mishra

Peter Selby

Sarvesh Logsetty

Jennifer Isenor

James Murray

Brendan Barrett

Kris Aubrey-Bassler

Kerry McBrien

Aisha Lofters

Aisha Lofters