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Dionne Gesink

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ProfessorEpidemiology DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Dionne Gesink

Professor

Epidemiology Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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26 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (6 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 5 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Education

PhD, Epidemiology
MSc, Geography
BSc, Biology, Geography

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Research

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Sexology Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology)Public and population health

Latest papers

Experiences of housing interventions among survivors of intimate partner violence: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026 · senior author
Acceptance of weight loss medication in patients with atypical hyperplasia or carcinoma of the endometrium as part of the fertility preservation treatment: A qualitative study.
Gynecologic oncology reports · 2026
The effect of software and hardware version on Apple Watch activity measurement: A secondary analysis of the COVFIT retrospective cohort study.
PLOS digital health · 2025

All 59 publications

Latest funding

Planning Research on the Impacts of Tribal Migration on Sustainability in West Bengal, India
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$20,000
Supporting a Compassionate Experience for Transition-Aged Youth Seeking Support through Digital Technologies
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$101,583
Understanding variations in delivery of sexual and gender minority-affirming sex education across Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$72,007

All 28 grants and awards

59 publications.

Experiences of housing interventions among survivors of intimate partner violence: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Yakubovich AR, Bari A, Doria N, Khan A, Metheny N, O'Campo P, Gesink D

Social science & medicine (1982)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119242 PMID: 41967378

Acceptance of weight loss medication in patients with atypical hyperplasia or carcinoma of the endometrium as part of the fertility preservation treatment: A qualitative study.

Adeoye OO, Gesink D, Dzyubak O, Ferguson SE, Kim SR

Gynecologic oncology reports2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.gore.2026.102058 PMID: 41889692

The effect of software and hardware version on Apple Watch activity measurement: A secondary analysis of the COVFIT retrospective cohort study.

Sturrock SL, Moineddin R, Gesink D, Woodruff S, Fuller D

PLOS digital health2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000727 PMID: 40198589

The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program at the University of Toronto: Early observations from Canada's first professional public health doctorate.

Witek TJ, Di Ruggiero E, Gesink D

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01003-x PMID: 40146500

A two-step approach to simultaneously correct for selection and misclassification bias in nonprobability samples from hard-to-reach populations.

Dharma C, Smith P, Salway T, Gesink D, Escobar M, Landsman V

American journal of epidemiology2025

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaf132 PMID: 40579367

‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada

Kinitz DJ, Ross LE, MacEachen E, Gesink D

Culture, Health & Sexuality20259 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2408349

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on sexually transmitted infections and the modifying role of public health funding: an interrupted time series study

Schwartz N, Hunter S, Forbes SM, Gesink D, Hobin E, Anderson LN, Rebellato S, Pabayo R, Smith BT

Journal of Public Health20254 citations

DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaf053

Public health funding and chlamydia and gonorrhea rates among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study

Kaur-Tiwana T, Schwartz N, Forbes SM, Hunter S, Gesink D, Hobin E, Anderson LN, Rebellato S, Pabayo R, Smith BT

Public Health20252 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105845

Medical Students' Perspectives on Family Planning and Impact on Specialty Choice.

Dason ES, Maxim M, Gesink D, Yee M, Chan C, Baxter NN, Shapiro H, Simpson AN

JAMA surgery2024

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6392 PMID: 38090998

Improving prevalence estimates of mental health and well-being indicators among sexual minority men: a propensity-weighting approach.

Dharma C, Smith PM, Escobar M, Salway T, Landsman V, Klassen B, Lachowsky NJ, Gesink D

American journal of epidemiology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae107 PMID: 38844559

Planning Research on the Impacts of Tribal Migration on Sustainability in West Bengal, India

Nominated PICIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Gesink, Dionne; Bhattacharya, Paramita; Desouza, Joseph F; Mukherjee, Nirmalya

Keywords: Indigenous Health; Mental Health; Mind Health; Social Health; Tribal Migration; Tribal Sustainability; Urban Sustainability

$20,000

Supporting a Compassionate Experience for Transition-Aged Youth Seeking Support through Digital Technologies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wiljer, David

Keywords: help-seeking; transition-aged youth; digital technologies; compassion; post-secondary; digital compassion; support

$101,583

Understanding variations in delivery of sexual and gender minority-affirming sex education across Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Salway, Travis J.

Keywords: sex education; 2S/LGBTQ inclusion; social ecological model

$72,007

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Environmental Exposure on Mental Health of Black Men who have Sex with Men in Southern United States

SupervisorCIHR2023Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Dharma, Christoffer

Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experience; Black Smm; Environmental Exposure; Longitudinal Study; Mental Health; Sexual Minority Men (Smm)

$6,000

Wellness and the Architecture of Public Health Education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Gesink, Dionne

Keywords: public health education; wellness and well-being; eco-social approach; equity-approach; mindfulness; systems thinking; Indigenous ways of knowing and doing; mixed methods

$68,405

Interdisciplinary LGBTQ/2S HEALTH Hub: Healing through Education and Awareness in stigma reduction and Lifecourse Training in Health

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Tr. Gr: HRTP - Stigma Reduction and Mental Wellness for LGBTQ2 Populations

Principal investigators: Grace, Daniel; Gahagan, Jacqueline C; Gilbert, Mark P; Kia, Hannah; Lachowsky, Nathan J; McCready, Lance T

Keywords: 2slgbtq+; Asynchronous And Synchronous Learning; Community-Based Interventions; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, And Accessibility; Interdisciplinary Training; Intersectionality; Lifecourse; Mentorship; Online Platform; Stigma Reduction

$1,787,019

A Bayesian Approach to Understanding Mental Health Burden and Service Utilization among Sexual Minority Men in Canada

SupervisorCIHR2021Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Dharma, Christoffer

Keywords: Bayesian; Epidemiology; Health Services; Machine Learning; Men Who Have Sex With Men; Mental Health; Sexuality

$105,000

Bridging the evidence-practice gap in the housing response to violence against women in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Yakubovich, Alexa

Keywords: violence; housing; homelessness; women; systematic review; intervention research; policy

$69,165

Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) In Suburban Cities

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

Principal investigators: Gesink, Dionne

Keywords: Mixed Methods; Sexual Health; Sexual Minority Men; Social Epidemiology; Suburban Geographies

$393,975

Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Sexual Minority Men In Suburban Cities

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant - Priority Announcement: HIV/AIDS and STBBI

Principal investigators: Gesink, Dionne; Bourns, Laura

Keywords: Hiv; Men Who Have Sex With Men; Sexual Health; Sexual Networks; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Social Isolation; Suburban Cities; Urban/Rural

$85,000

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

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Dionne Gesink

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Experiences of housing interventions among survivors of intimate partner violence: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Acceptance of weight loss medication in patients with atypical hyperplasia or carcinoma of the endometrium as part of the fertility preservation treatment: A qualitative study.

The effect of software and hardware version on Apple Watch activity measurement: A secondary analysis of the COVFIT retrospective cohort study.

The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program at the University of Toronto: Early observations from Canada's first professional public health doctorate.

A two-step approach to simultaneously correct for selection and misclassification bias in nonprobability samples from hard-to-reach populations.

‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on sexually transmitted infections and the modifying role of public health funding: an interrupted time series study

Public health funding and chlamydia and gonorrhea rates among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study

Medical Students' Perspectives on Family Planning and Impact on Specialty Choice.

Improving prevalence estimates of mental health and well-being indicators among sexual minority men: a propensity-weighting approach.

Planning Research on the Impacts of Tribal Migration on Sustainability in West Bengal, India

Supporting a Compassionate Experience for Transition-Aged Youth Seeking Support through Digital Technologies

Understanding variations in delivery of sexual and gender minority-affirming sex education across Canada

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Environmental Exposure on Mental Health of Black Men who have Sex with Men in Southern United States

Wellness and the Architecture of Public Health Education

Interdisciplinary LGBTQ/2S HEALTH Hub: Healing through Education and Awareness in stigma reduction and Lifecourse Training in Health

A Bayesian Approach to Understanding Mental Health Burden and Service Utilization among Sexual Minority Men in Canada

Bridging the evidence-practice gap in the housing response to violence against women in Canada

Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) In Suburban Cities

Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Sexual Minority Men In Suburban Cities

Frequent collaborators

Travis Salway

Mark Gilbert

Travis Salway

Jason Wong

Mona Loutfy

Rita Shahin

Olivier Ferlatte

Ian Johnson

Ryan Lisk

Ted Myers

Patricia O’Campo

Rupert Kaul

Mel Krajden

Todd Norwood

Roman Pabayo

Lana Whiskeyjack

Paul Ritvo

Hasina Samji

Michael Kwag

Daniel Fuller

Ramandip Grewal

Michael Escobar

Rahim Moineddin

Heather Shapiro

Erin Hobin

Steven Rebellato

Laura Anderson

Ellen MacEachen

Gina Ogilvie

Candice Lys

Paul Ritvo

Lena Serghides

Michelle Murti

Darrell Tan

Carol Strike

Yan Kestens

Randall Jackson

Jason Gilliland

Mark Gilbert

Sharmistha Mishra