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Janet Smylie

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ProfessorCentre for Urban Health SolutionsUniversity of Toronto

Janet Smylie

Professor

Centre for Urban Health Solutions

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada

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24 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 12 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (12 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 7 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2024.

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Research

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Respondent Driven Sampling Knowledge Network Indigenous Health Information Systems Aboriginal Population Health Data Quality Epidemiology Health Information Systems Health Intervention Research

Latest papers

Social inequalities in COVID-19 death by area-level income in 11.2 million people in Ontario, Canada: patterns over time and the mediating role of vaccination.
American journal of epidemiology · 2026
Indigenous excellence: confronting racism and complicity in peer review.
Health promotion international · 2026 · senior author
The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026

All 54 publications

Latest funding

Our Health Counts Next Generations: Advancing Indigenist Data and Data Sovereignty to Assure Wellbeing Across Urban and Related Homelands
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$4,284,000
Using Storywork to Develop Indigenous Community-grounded Anti-Racism and Cultural Safety Training Tools for Reproductive Care Providers Working in Hospital
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$108,500
Holistic Indigenous Mental Health and Wellness: Transforming Health Care Strengths and Solutions
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$4,000,000

All 32 grants and awards

54 publications.

Social inequalities in COVID-19 death by area-level income in 11.2 million people in Ontario, Canada: patterns over time and the mediating role of vaccination.

Wang L, Swayze S, Bodner K, Calzavara A, Harrigan SP, Siddiqi A, Baral SD, Austin PC, Smylie J, Koh M, Sbihi H, Sander B, Kwong JC, Mishra S

American journal of epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaf051 PMID: 40069958

Indigenous excellence: confronting racism and complicity in peer review.

Maddox R, Funnell S, Kennedy M, Smylie J

Health promotion international2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daag117 PMID: 42583781

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Avery L, Snyder M, Cyr M, Herrera D, Star L, Sinclair S, Smylie J, Rotondi M

International journal of environmental research and public health2026

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23081017 PMID: 42652332

Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario.

Snyder M, McConkey S, Brar R, Anilniliak J, Bourgeois C, Dokis B, Hardy M, Joseph S, Kilabuk A, Mattina JA, McKnight C, Smylie J

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

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01040-6 PMID: 40439978

Primary care in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Lessons from Ontario.

Martin D, Razak F, Bayoumi I, Eissa A, Green ME, Glazier RH, Grill AK, Ivers NM, Mangin D, Muggah E

Canadian Family Physician20258 citations

DOI: 10.46747/cfp.710131

Our health counts: In our voices.

Bourgeois C, Hardy M, McKnight C, Snyder M, Powless-Lynes MY, Smylie J

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00939-w PMID: 39322913

Design and implementation of the Our Health Counts (OHC) methodology for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) health assessment and response in urban and related homelands.

Smylie J, Bourgeois C, Snyder M, Maddox R, McConkey S, Rotondi M, Prince C, Dokis B, Hardy M, Joseph S, Kilabuk A, Mattina JA, Cyr M, Blais G

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00867-9 PMID: 38619750

Our Health Counts: Examining associations between colonialism and ever being incarcerated among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in London, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, Canada.

Muir NM, Rotondi M, Brar R, Rotondi NK, Bourgeois C, Dokis B, Hardy M, Maddox R, Smylie J

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00838-6 PMID: 38158518

Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada.

Firestone M, McConkey S, Beaudoin E, Bourgeois C, Smylie J

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-022-00709-6 PMID: 36525204

Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population.

Avery L, Maddox R, Abtan R, Wong O, Rotondi NK, McConkey S, Bourgeois C, McKnight C, Wolfe S, Flicker S, Macpherson A, Smylie J, Rotondi M

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-022-00669-x PMID: 35945472

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Janet Smylie

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Social inequalities in COVID-19 death by area-level income in 11.2 million people in Ontario, Canada: patterns over time and the mediating role of vaccination.

Indigenous excellence: confronting racism and complicity in peer review.

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and M&#xe9;tis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario.

Primary care in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Lessons from Ontario.

Our health counts: In our voices.

Design and implementation of the Our Health Counts (OHC) methodology for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) health assessment and response in urban and related homelands.

Our Health Counts: Examining associations between colonialism and ever being incarcerated among First Nations, Inuit, and M&#xe9;tis people in London, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, Canada.

Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada.

Modelling prevalent cardiovascular disease in an urban Indigenous population.

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Michael Rotondi

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Lisa Avery

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Candace Nykiforuk

Namaste Marsden

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Jonathan McGavock

David Hammond

Alison Macpherson

Bernice Downey

Dawn Kingston

Richard Long

Jo-Ann Episkenew

Sarah Flicker

Cheryl Levitt

Derelie A Mangin

Marcelo Urquia

Jacqueline Gahagan

The Right to Be Counted: Unmasking First Nations and Métis Population Undercounts in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Our Health Counts: Examining associations between colonialism and ever being incarcerated among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in London, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, Canada.