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Gillian Einstein

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ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Gillian Einstein

Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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50 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 27 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2013.

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Publications

167

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108

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Research

Dementia Alzheimer Disease Cognition Memory Oophorectomy Gender Aging Diagnosis

Latest papers

Age at menopause, APOE-ε4, and Alzheimer's disease risk.
Research square · 2026
Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: Symptômes neuropsychiatriques de la sclérose en plaques: différences selon le sexe.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026
Sex differences in the association of adverse childhood experiences with brain and cognition along a continuum of risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026 · senior author

All 84 publications

Latest funding

Women's Brain Health and Cognitive Aging: The effects of Intimate Partner Violence on neuroinflammation, sleep, and cardiovascular disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$70,000
Self, Memory, and Brain Aging in Transfeminine Persons
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$286,876
A PROGRESS-Driven Approach to Cognitive Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury: Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$99,950

All 15 grants and awards

84 publications.

Age at menopause, APOE-ε4, and Alzheimer's disease risk.

Wood Alexander M, Nyman AJ, Casaletto KB, Saloner R, Vandeloo KL, Splinter TFL, Swardfager W, Ottoy J, Masellis M, Galea LAM, Black SE, Einstein G, Denkinger MN, Ashton NJ, Caldwell JZK, Johnson SC, Arvanitakis Z, Rabin JS

Research square2026

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10121551/v1 PMID: 42539099

Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: Symptômes neuropsychiatriques de la sclérose en plaques: différences selon le sexe.

Freedman DE, Oh J, Einstein G, Feinstein A

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2026

DOI: 10.1177/07067437261425067 PMID: 41762167

Sex differences in the association of adverse childhood experiences with brain and cognition along a continuum of risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Perović M, Phillips NA, Einstein G

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71612 PMID: 42325010

Of mice and gender: considering gender norms in rodent models.

Engel L, Einstein G, Rozeske RR

Biology of sex differences2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13293-026-00909-6 PMID: 42226304

A roadmap for conducting more inclusive research on brain resilience in ageing and dementia.

Rajah MN, Dixon RA, Einstein G, Stern Y, Brain Resilience and Diversity in Aging and Dementia Collaboratory

Nature reviews. Neuroscience2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41583-025-01021-1 PMID: 41578133

Younger midlife females with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: respiratory disturbances during sleep.

Gravelsins L, Gervais NJ, Brown A, Ramana S, Zhao S, Nicoll G, Bernardini MQ, Jacobson M, Einstein G

Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/13697137.2025.2595987 PMID: 41428410

Evaluating sex and gender as separate and interactive predictors of memory aging trajectory classes: an integrative data-driven approach.

Bohn L, Vandenberg P, Fah H, Rajah MN, Einstein G, Dixon RA

Biology of sex differences2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13293-026-00864-2 PMID: 41803975

Sex differences in neuromodulatory subcortical systems and their implications for Alzheimer's disease.

Rae RJ, Alberhasky JMH, Baillet M, Bangasser DA, Belloy ME, Berry AS, Berteotti C, Bow H, Buckley R, Caldwell JZK, Carpi M, Clark BJ, Ciampa CJ, Conley AC, Dahl MJ, Donaldson ZR, Ehrenberg AJ, Einstein G, Falgàs N, Fenlon HA, Fitzhugh MC, Froemke RC, Gallay C, Grinberg LT, Hamilton DA, Hasan Z, Huarte OU, Jabeen S, Jacobs HIL, Kolling LJ, Koops EA, Lenzoni S, Liguori C, Manca R, Marcinkiewcz CA, Omoluabi T, Oria R, Orsini CA, Ortega NE, Pa J, Pentkowski NS, Pereira JB, Ramos R, Sargin D, Satpati A, Selles MC, Seto M, Shaik SM, Sindi S, Son G, Ucheagwu V, Van Egroo M, Yuan Q, Kelberman MA

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2026

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71291 PMID: 41853971

The Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) Study Neuropsychology Battery of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA): Battery Development and Description.

Phillips NA, Fogarty J, Pilon R, Whitehead V, Best S, DiProspero C, Fouquet C, Beuk J, Mohades Z, Das S, Beaudoin C, Henri-Bellmare C, Anderson N, Belleville S, Brambati S, Einstein G, McLaughlin P, Chertkow H, Borrie M

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2026

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980825100330 PMID: 41277695

Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.

Calvo N, Phillips N, Bialystok E, Einstein G

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/dad2.70255 PMID: 41573422

Women's Brain Health and Cognitive Aging: The effects of Intimate Partner Violence on neuroinflammation, sleep, and cardiovascular disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Nominated PICIHR2025Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data - IA Brain Health

Principal investigators: Einstein, Gillian

Keywords: Alzheimer Disease; Cardiovascular Disease; Cognition; Gender; Inflammation; Intimate Partner Violence; Memory; Possible Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep

$70,000

Self, Memory, and Brain Aging in Transfeminine Persons

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Einstein, Gillian

Keywords: 17-Beta-Estradiol; Aging; Dementia; Gender Affirming Estradiol Therapy (Gaet); Intertwined Effects Of Sex And Gender; Memory; Senescence, Inflammation And Immunity; Sexual Minority Stress; Transfeminine; Very Mixed Methods

$286,876

A PROGRESS-Driven Approach to Cognitive Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury: Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Op. Grant: BHCIA: KS and Mobilization Grants - Sex and Gender Differences (SGD)

Principal investigators: Mollayeva, Tatyana; McDonald, Michelle

Keywords: Cognitive Outcomes; Cohort Studies; Data Repository; Data-Driven Techniques; Evidence Synthesis; Gender Equality; Knowledge Mobilization; Risk And Protective Factors; Social Equity; Traumatic Brain Injury

$99,950

Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging: Application for Phase III CCNA Operations Centre

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Principal investigators: Chertkow, Howard M; Anderson, Nicole D; Andrew, Melissa K; Badhwar, Amanpreet; Belleville, Sylvie N; Bethell, Jennifer M; Bhangu, Jaspreet S; Black, Sandra E; Borrie, Michael J; Brewster, Paul W; Camicioli, J. Richard M; Crowshoe, Lynden L; Darvesh, Sultan; DeMarco, Mari; Dixon, Roger A; Duchesne, Simon; Einstein, Gillian; Evans, Alan C; Feldman, Howard; Fisk, John D; Geddes, Maiya R; Lim, Andrew S; Masellis, Mario; McAiney, Carrie A; Mclaurin, Joanne; Montero Odasso, Manuel M; Nygaard, Haakon B; O'Connell, Megan E; Phillips, Natalie A; Rajah, Maria N; Roach, Pamela Marie; Robillard, Julie; Rockwood, Kenneth; Smith, Eric E; Villeneuve, Sylvia C; Waldron, Ingrid R; Walker, Jennifer

Keywords: Biomarkers; Brain Imaging; Cognition; Dementia; Diagnosis; Edi; Indigenous Cognitive Health; Knowledge Mobilization; Prevention; Risk Factors

$20,555,200

Understanding how, why and for whom Lifestyle Medicine Interventions work for the management of Hypertension as a Modifiable Risk Factor to reduce Stroke and Vascular Cognitive Impairment & Dementia: A Realist Review

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Operating Grant: BHCIA: Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization Grants - VCI

Principal investigators: Pikula, Aleksandra; Ibrahim, Sarah; Rac, Valeria E

Keywords: Hypertension; Knowledge Translation; Lifestyle Interventions; Modifiable Risk Factors; Stroke; Vascular Cognitive Impairment And Dementia (Vcid)

$99,980

The Lived Brain: Whole body effects on women's brain health--mechanism and diversity

Nominated PICIHR2021Chair: The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health and Aging

Principal investigators: Einstein, Gillian

Keywords: Accelerated Cognitive And Brain Aging; Brca1/2 Mutations; Dementia; Estrogen Deficiency; Menopause; Oophorectomy; Open Science; Subjective Cognitive Decline; Visible Minorities; Women'S Brain Health

$250,000

Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative (GENFI) in Canada: Combined Investigation of Clinical, MRI, Genomic, and Epigenomic Biomarkers

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Masellis, Mario; Finger, Elizabeth

Keywords: C9orf72; Dna Methylation; Epigenomics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Genomics; Grn; Mapt; Mri; Quantitative Traits; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

$1,128,375

Phase Two of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Principal investigators: Chertkow, Howard M; Anderson, Nicole D; Andrew, Melissa K; Bartha, Robert; Bellec, Pierre; Belleville, Sylvie N; Bergman, Howard; Bherer, Louis; Black, Sandra E; Borrie, Michael J; Camicioli, J. Richard M; Carrier, Julie; Cashman, Neil R; Collins, Donald L; Cuello, A. Claudio G; Dixon, Roger A; Ducharme, Simon; Duchesne, Simon; Einstein, Gillian; Eintracht, Shaun; Evans, Alan C; Fahnestock, Margaret; Feldman, Howard; Ferland, Guylaine; Fisk, John D; Gan-Or, Ziv; Giguère, Anik; Herrmann, Nathan; Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R; Lanctôt, Krista L; Lim, Andrew S; Mackenzie, Ian R; Masellis, Mario; Maxwell, Colleen J; McGilton, Katherine S; Mclaurin, Joanne; Montero Odasso, Manuel M; Morgan, Debra G; Naglie, Gary; Nygaard, Haakon B; O'Connell, Megan E; Phillips, Natalie A; Poirier, Judes; Rapoport, Mark J; Robillard, Julie; Rockwood, Kenneth; Rogaeva, Ekaterina; Rosa-Neto, Pedro; Rylett, Jane R; Seitz, Dallas P; Siminovitch, Katherine A; Smith, Eric E; ST GEORGE-HYSLOP, Peter H; Vedel, Isabelle; Walker, Jennifer; Wittich, Walter

Keywords: Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Diagnosis; Prevention; Quality Of Life; Sex; Treatment

$31,625,000

Meeting of the Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex (COGS) Research

Nominated PICIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Einstein, Gillian

Keywords: Gender; New Scientific Organization; Sex And Gender Science; Sex Differences; Social And Biological; Transdisciplinary

$19,910

The Lived Brain: Whole body effects on women's brain health

Nominated PICIHR2016Chair: The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health

Principal investigators: Einstein, Gillian

Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Apoe4; Brca 1/2 Mutations; Cognitive Aging; Dementia; Estrogen Deficiency; Knowledge Translation; Menopause; Oophorectomy; Women'S Brain Health

$250,000

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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Gillian Einstein

Research

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Latest funding

Age at menopause, APOE-&#x3b5;4, and Alzheimer's disease risk.

Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: Sympt&#xf4;mes neuropsychiatriques de la scl&#xe9;rose en plaques: diff&#xe9;rences selon le sexe.

Sex differences in the association of adverse childhood experiences with brain and cognition along a continuum of risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Of mice and gender: considering gender norms in rodent models.

A roadmap for conducting more inclusive research on brain resilience in ageing and dementia.

Younger midlife females with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: respiratory disturbances during sleep.

Evaluating sex and gender as separate and interactive predictors of memory aging trajectory classes: an integrative data-driven approach.

Sex differences in neuromodulatory subcortical systems and their implications for Alzheimer's disease.

The Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) Study Neuropsychology Battery of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA): Battery Development and Description.

Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.

Frequent collaborators

Gillian Einstein

Mario Masellis

Cheryl Grady

Walter Swardfager

Janice Du Mont

Daniel Grace

Michael Borrie

Patricia O’Campo

Pamela Roach

Najib Ayas

Pedro Rosa-Neto

Robert Bartha

Howard Chertkow

Gregory Moullec

Howard Chertkow

Rosanna Olsen

Zahinoor Ismail

Natalie Phillips

Louis Bherer

Elise Paradis

Rosanna Olsen

Nadia Gosselin

Andrew Lim

Nicole Anderson

David Kreindler

Julie Carrier

Cheryl Wellington

Edward Fon

Bojana Stefanovic

Olena Hankivsky

Alex Mihailidis

Neil Cashman

Caroline Pukall

Angela Colantonio

Debra Morgan

Howard Bergman

Nathan Herrmann

Peter ST GEORGE-HYSLOP

Serge Gauthier

Frédéric Calon

Age at menopause, APOE-ε4, and Alzheimer's disease risk.

Sex Differences in the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: Symptômes neuropsychiatriques de la sclérose en plaques: différences selon le sexe.