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Kathleen Wilson

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Kathleen Wilson

Researcher

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.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2010.

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Research

Children Communities Families Health Equity Marginalized Populations Occupational Health Racialization Urban Health

Latest papers

The ‘survival job’ pathway: Risk-focusing and occupational challenges among Canadian racialized and immigrant adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Social Science and Medicine · 2025
Are at-risk sociodemographic attributes stable across COVID-19 transmission waves?
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology · 2023

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Stepping Towards Healthy and Green Cities to Inform and Advance Policy Interventions for Diabetes Prevention
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Identifying research priorities and equitable and integrated policy interventions for diabetes prevention within health care and community settings
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Understanding the COVID-19 Journeys and Vaccine Experiences of Racialized and Immigrant Communities in the Greater Toronto Area
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$199,000

All 13 grants and awards

Stepping Towards Healthy and Green Cities to Inform and Advance Policy Interventions for Diabetes Prevention

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Op Gr: HCRI - Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts - General Pool

Principal investigators: Fazli, Ghazal S; Booth, Gillian L; Lipscombe, Lorraine

Keywords: Built Environment; Epidemiology; Health Equity; Healthy Cities; Neighbourhood Greenspace; Neighbourhood Walkability; Prediabetes; Prediction Modelling; Stages Of Diabetes Development; Type 2 Diabetes

$100,000

Identifying research priorities and equitable and integrated policy interventions for diabetes prevention within health care and community settings

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Fazli, Ghazal S; Booth, Gillian L; Lipscombe, Lorraine

Keywords: Concept Mapping; Stakeholder Engagement; Type 2 Diabetes

$20,000

Understanding the COVID-19 Journeys and Vaccine Experiences of Racialized and Immigrant Communities in the Greater Toronto Area

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.:Emerging COVID-19 Res. Gaps & Priorities (July 2021) - Urban Populations

Principal investigators: Adams, Matthew; Galloway, Tracey L; Wilson, Kathleen J

Keywords: Children; Communities; Families; Health Equity; Marginalized Populations; Occupational Health; Racialization; Urban Health; Youth

$199,000

Elucidating the Gene-Environment Interactions that drive Autoimmune Disease among South Asian Canadians - The GEMINI Program.

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - Chronic Immunologically-mediated

Principal investigators: Gommerman, Jennifer L; Croitoru, Kenneth

Keywords: Health Geography; Immigration; Immune System; Microbiome; Nutrition; Urban Environments

$1,950,000

Age-friendly communities: age-friendly for whom

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Rosenberg, Mark W.

Keywords: age-friendly; communities; geography; planning; older population; Canada

$287,468

Elucidating the Gene-Environment Interactions that drive Autoimmune Disease among South Asian Canadians - The GEMINI Program.

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - LOI

Principal investigators: Gommerman, Jennifer L; Croitoru, Kenneth

Keywords: Health Geography; Immigration; Immune System; Microbiome; Nutrition; Urban Environments

Aboriginal mobility in urban Canada: navigating the landscape of service provision in Winnipeg and Toronto

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Wilson, Kathleen Joan

Keywords: Aboriginal migration; urban settings; residential mobility; access to services; social cohesion

$106,705

Immigrants' quality of life: relationship to adaptation in three Canadian cities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Immigration and the Metropolis

Principal investigators: Williams, Allison M.

Keywords: adaptation; immigration; quality of life; cities; mixed methods; knowledge translation

$125,000

Aboriginal Mobility in Canada: Examining the Health Impacts of Frequent Movement between Reserves and Cities

SupervisorCIHR2010Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Senese, Laura C

Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Colonialism; Mixed Methods; Mobility; Qualitative Interviews; Social And Environmental Determinants Of Health; Statistical Analysis; Urbanization

$17,500

Validating sketch maps for the examination of geography and related knowledge

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Bell, Scott M.

Keywords: sketch mapping; spatial cognition; giscience

$86,726

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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Kathleen Wilson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The ‘survival job’ pathway: Risk-focusing and occupational challenges among Canadian racialized and immigrant adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Are at-risk sociodemographic attributes stable across COVID-19 transmission waves?

Stepping Towards Healthy and Green Cities to Inform and Advance Policy Interventions for Diabetes Prevention

Identifying research priorities and equitable and integrated policy interventions for diabetes prevention within health care and community settings

Understanding the COVID-19 Journeys and Vaccine Experiences of Racialized and Immigrant Communities in the Greater Toronto Area

Elucidating the Gene-Environment Interactions that drive Autoimmune Disease among South Asian Canadians - The GEMINI Program.

Age-friendly communities: age-friendly for whom

Elucidating the Gene-Environment Interactions that drive Autoimmune Disease among South Asian Canadians - The GEMINI Program.

Aboriginal mobility in urban Canada: navigating the landscape of service provision in Winnipeg and Toronto

Immigrants' quality of life: relationship to adaptation in three Canadian cities

Aboriginal Mobility in Canada: Examining the Health Impacts of Frequent Movement between Reserves and Cities

Validating sketch maps for the examination of geography and related knowledge

Frequent collaborators

Matthew Adams

Tracey Galloway

Matthew Adams

Laura Rosella