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Gunther Eysenbach

ResearcherHealth Policy, Management & EvaluationUniversity of Toronto

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Gunther Eysenbach

Researcher

Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 6 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (2 CIHR, 1 SSHRC, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2012.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2009.

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Publications

355

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Research

Health Informatics Knowledge Translation Public Health

Latest papers

Crisis Text Line and Loris.ai Controversy Highlights the Complexity of Informed Consent on the Internet and Data-Sharing Ethics for Machine Learning and Research.
Journal of medical Internet research · 2025 · first author
Gender and Geographical Representation on Editorial Board Members of Medical Informatics Journals.
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2024
Corrigendum to: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.
JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024 · senior author

All 40 publications

Latest funding

ThoughtSpot: Enhancing self-efficacy for help-seeking among transition-aged youth in postsecondary settings with mental health and/or substance use concerns using crowd-sourced online and mobile technologies.
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$749,980
Development and planning of a theory-based implementation of a national wiki-based reminder system promoting best practices in trauma care
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$24,956
Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Exploring the use of social media and web-metrics to monitor and measure knowledge use
CIHR · 2012 · Nominated PI
$316,353

All 11 grants and awards

40 publications.

Crisis Text Line and Loris.ai Controversy Highlights the Complexity of Informed Consent on the Internet and Data-Sharing Ethics for Machine Learning and Research.

Eysenbach G

Journal of medical Internet research2025First author

DOI: 10.2196/67878 PMID: 39841991

Gender and Geographical Representation on Editorial Board Members of Medical Informatics Journals.

Mavragani A, Eysenbach G, Leung TI

Studies in health technology and informatics2024

DOI: 10.3233/shti240364 PMID: 39176693

Corrigendum to: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.

Leung T, Sanchez T, Eysenbach G

JMIR public health and surveillance2024Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/64080 PMID: 38986125

Consolidated Reporting Guidelines for Prognostic and Diagnostic Machine Learning Models (CREMLS).

El Emam K, Leung TI, Malin B, Klement W, Eysenbach G

Journal of medical Internet research2024Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/52508 PMID: 38696776

Best Practices for Using AI Tools as an Author, Peer Reviewer, or Editor.

Leung TI, de Azevedo Cardoso T, Mavragani A, Eysenbach G

Journal of medical Internet research2023Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/51584 PMID: 37651164

Focusing on Digital Research Priorities for Advancing the Access and Quality of Mental Health.

Torous J, Benson NM, Myrick K, Eysenbach G

JMIR mental health2023Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/47898 PMID: 37093624

The Role of ChatGPT, Generative Language Models, and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education: A Conversation With ChatGPT and a Call for Papers.

Eysenbach G

JMIR medical education2023First author

DOI: 10.2196/46885 PMID: 36863937

Brilliant Ideas Can Come in All Sizes: Research Letters.

Kukafka R, Leung TI, Eysenbach G

Journal of medical Internet research2022Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/41046 PMID: 35881444

Advancing Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era.

Mackey T, Baur C, Eysenbach G

JMIR infodemiology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/37115 PMID: 37113802

How to Fight an Infodemic: The Four Pillars of Infodemic Management.

Eysenbach G

Journal of medical Internet research2020First author

DOI: 10.2196/21820 PMID: 32589589

ThoughtSpot: Enhancing self-efficacy for help-seeking among transition-aged youth in postsecondary settings with mental health and/or substance use concerns using crowd-sourced online and mobile technologies.

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operation:eHealth Innov Partnership Program(eHIPP)-Youth &Adolescent Mental Hlth

Principal investigators: Wiljer, David E

Keywords: Community Of Practice; Crowd-Sourced Mapping; Help-Seeking; Mental Health; Mobile Solutions; Participatory Research; Postsecondary Students; Self-Efficacy; Substance Use; Transition-Aged Youth

$749,980

Development and planning of a theory-based implementation of a national wiki-based reminder system promoting best practices in trauma care

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research

Principal investigators: Archambault, Patrick; Lapointe, Jean

Keywords: Collaboration; Communities Of Practice; Medical Informatics; Quality Of Care; Social Media; Trauma Care; Wikis

$24,956

Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Exploring the use of social media and web-metrics to monitor and measure knowledge use

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Eysenbach, Gunther

Keywords: Health Informatics; Knowledge Translation; Public Health

$316,353

Canadian e-Platform to Promote Behavioral Self-Management in Chronic Heart Failure: CHF-CePPORT

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Nolan, Robert P

Keywords: Chronic Heart Failure; E-Health; Lifestyle Counselling; Pancanadian Network; Quality Of Life; Randomized Controlled Trial

$496,786

An epidemiology of information: data mining the 1918 influenza pandemic

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Digging into Data Challenge

Principal investigators: Eysenbach, Gunther

$125,000

Wikis and collaborative writing applications in health care: a scoping review

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Knowledge Synthesis Grant - Priority Announcement: Knowledge Translation

Principal investigators: Archambault, Patrick; Gold, Irving; Grajales Iii, Francisco J

Keywords: Barriers And Facilitators; Collaborative Writing Applications; Content Analysis; Health Informatics; Knowledge Translation; Medicine 2.0; Positive And Negative Effects; Scoping Review; Wiki

$46,591

Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Content Analysis of Tweets for Infoveillance and Knowledge Translation Research

Nominated PICIHR2010Operating Grant: Health Systems Research on H1N1

Principal investigators: Eysenbach, Gunther

Keywords: Health Informatics; Internet; Knowledge Translation; Pandemic Influenza; Public Health; Surveillance

$100,000

Understanding the publics' response to the H1N1 vaccine

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant: Health Systems Research on H1N1

Principal investigators: Wilson, Kumanan

Keywords: Public Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Survey; Systematic Review; Vaccine

$96,851

Social Networking for Health

SupervisorCIHR2009Master's Award: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Chew, Cynthia M

Keywords: Focus Groups; Health Behaviour Change; Health Information Privacy; Health Promotion; Online Social Support; Patient Education; Patient Engagement; Personal Health Records; Social Networking Applications; Survey Research

$17,500

Personalized information platform for life and health services (PIPS)

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Special Research Opportunity Program - Project

Principal investigators: Eysenbach, Gunther

$112,900

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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Gunther Eysenbach

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Crisis Text Line and Loris.ai Controversy Highlights the Complexity of Informed Consent on the Internet and Data-Sharing Ethics for Machine Learning and Research.

Gender and Geographical Representation on Editorial Board Members of Medical Informatics Journals.

Corrigendum to: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.

Consolidated Reporting Guidelines for Prognostic and Diagnostic Machine Learning Models (CREMLS).

Best Practices for Using AI Tools as an Author, Peer Reviewer, or Editor.

Focusing on Digital Research Priorities for Advancing the Access and Quality of Mental Health.

The Role of ChatGPT, Generative Language Models, and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education: A Conversation With ChatGPT and a Call for Papers.

Brilliant Ideas Can Come in All Sizes: Research Letters.

Advancing Infodemiology in a Digital Intensive Era.

How to Fight an Infodemic: The Four Pillars of Infodemic Management.

An epidemiology of information: data mining the 1918 influenza pandemic

Personalized information platform for life and health services (PIPS)

Frequent collaborators

Dina Brooks

Scott Thomas

David Wiljer

Dina Brooks

Sam Liu

Aristotle Voineskos

Jack Goodman

Kristin Cleverley

Gloria Chaim

Janine Robb

Heather Ross

Huan jiang

Emily Seto

Peter Selby

Michael Farkouh

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai

Arun Ravindran

Khaled El Emam

Paul Oh

Marcus Law

Emma Apatu

Martin Dawes