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Garry Aslanyan
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Latest papers
Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy.
PLOS global public health · 2026
From emergency multilateralism to resilient health diplomacy.
Lancet (London, England) · 2025
From algorithms to negotiations: Why health diplomacy must adapt.
PLOS global public health · 2025
Latest funding
- $100,000
Promoting planetary health education, smoking-free home, and clean air community mobilization to prevent air pollution related non-communicable diseases in urban Pakistan
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $20,000
Harnessing the potential of implementation science to define research priorities that advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC): A Research Agenda-Setting Workshop Aligned to a Multi-Country Delphi Study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $199,808
Developing a tool kit to build vaccine confidence and ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccination implementation strategies in low-and-middle income countries: a multi-stakeholder implementation science and co-development study
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy.
Martinez E, Rosskam E, Aslanyan G, Baines L, Komatsu R, Darabos N, Wong BLH, Viberg N, Hososawa M, Minghui R, Robalo Correia E Silva M, Nordstrom A
From emergency multilateralism to resilient health diplomacy.
Wong BLH, Martinez E, Aslanyan G, Urbáez K, Teo YY, Kickbusch I
From algorithms to negotiations: Why health diplomacy must adapt.
Wong BLH, Aslanyan G, Panichkriangkrai W, Leite RB, Mahmood J, Nordström A
Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving non-communicable disease management during the pandemic in rural Pakistan.
Wei X, Khan N, Durrani H, Muzaffar N, Haldane V, Walley JD, Thorpe K, Ge E, Ge S, Dodd W, Wallace J, Aslanyan G, Laporte A, Khan MA
Politics of disease control in Africa and the critical role of global health diplomacy: A systematic review.
Chattu VK, Knight WA, Adisesh A, Yaya S, Reddy KS, Di Ruggiero E, Aginam O, Aslanyan G, Clarke M, Massoud MR, Jha A
Tackling the tensions in evaluating capacity strengthening for health research in low- and middle-income countries.
Bates I, Boyd A, Aslanyan G, Cole DC
Indicators for tracking programmes to strengthen health research capacity in lower- and middle-income countries: a qualitative synthesis.
Cole DC, Boyd A, Aslanyan G, Bates I
Promoting planetary health education, smoking-free home, and clean air community mobilization to prevent air pollution related non-communicable diseases in urban Pakistan
Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Abelsohn, Alan; Khan, Muhammad Amir
Keywords: Air Pollution; Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial; Community Based Interventions; Community Mobilization; Implementation Science; Non-Communicable Diseases; Pakistan; Planetary Health Education; Tobacco Cessation
Harnessing the potential of implementation science to define research priorities that advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC): A Research Agenda-Setting Workshop Aligned to a Multi-Country Delphi Study
Principal investigators: Di Ruggiero, Erica; Essue, Beverley M; Kane, Sumit
Keywords: Equity; Global Health; Health Systems; Implementation Science; Universal Health Coverage
Developing a tool kit to build vaccine confidence and ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccination implementation strategies in low-and-middle income countries: a multi-stakeholder implementation science and co-development study
Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Aslanyan, Garry
Keywords: Covid-19 Vaccination; Global Health; Health Equity; Health Policy; Implementation Science; Intervention; Low And Middle Income Countries; Vaccine Confidence
Improving vaccine confidence in racial and ethnic minority communities: evaluating local public health partnerships in Ontario
Principal investigators: Di Ruggiero, Erica
Keywords: implementation research; gender; public health; qualitative research; intersectionality ; equity; racial and ethnic minority; Evaluation ; community-centred interventions; faith-based organizations
Improving vaccine confidence in racial and ethnic minority communities: evaluating local public health partnerships in Ontario
Principal investigators: Di Ruggiero, Erica
Keywords: implementation research; gender; public health; qualitative research; intersectionality ; equity; racial and ethnic minority; Evaluation ; community-centred interventions; faith-based organizations
Understanding and evaluating the role of partnerships with Canadian minority faith-based communities in improving vaccine confidence in communities and vaccination program implementers
Principal investigators: Di Ruggiero, Erica; Loh, Lawrence; Allin, Sara; Fadel, Shaza A
Keywords: Equity; Faith-Based Organizations; Implementation Science; Public Health; Vaccine Confidence
Developing integrated guidelines for health care workers in hospital and primary healthcare facilities in response to Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Aslanyan, Garry; Lau, Lincoln; Samaraweera, Sudath
Keywords: Country Adaptation; Covid-19; Guidelines And Training Modules; Health Care Workers; Health System; Integrated Preparedness Plan; Low And Middle Income Countries; Public Health Response; Sri Lanka; The Philippines
Towards Equitable Universal Health Coverage in a Globalized Era: a research agenda setting workshop
Principal investigators: Di Ruggiero, Erica; Allin, Sara
Keywords: Equity; Financial Protection; Gender; Global Health; Quality; Universal Health Coverage
Health Research Capacity Development Evaluation: A Realist Review
Principal investigators: Cole, Donald C; Aslanyan, Garry; Bates, Imelda; Kakuma, Ritsuko
Keywords: Capacity Development; Evaluation; Health Research; Realist Review
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
- Erjia Ge and Xiaolin Wei: 17 shared papers
- Warren Dodd and Xiaolin Wei: 8 shared papers
- Audrey Laporte and Xiaolin Wei: 4 shared papers
- Kevin Thorpe and Xiaolin Wei: 2 shared papers
- Kevin Thorpe and Audrey Laporte: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Thorpe and Warren Dodd: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Thorpe and Erjia Ge: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Thorpe and Garry Aslanyan: 1 shared paper
- Audrey Laporte and Warren Dodd: 1 shared paper
- Audrey Laporte and Erjia Ge: 1 shared paper
- Audrey Laporte and Garry Aslanyan: 1 shared paper
- Warren Dodd and Garry Aslanyan: 1 shared paper
- Erjia Ge and Garry Aslanyan: 1 shared paper
- Xiaolin Wei and Garry Aslanyan: 1 shared paper
- Department of Dental Public Health
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Epidemiology
- Surgery
- School of Public Health Sciences
- Institute of Health Policy
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Kevin Thorpe
Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Audrey Laporte
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Warren Dodd
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Erjia Ge
Epidemiology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Xiaolin Wei
Institute of Health Policy
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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