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Leonard Tsuji

ResearcherHealth and SocietyUniversity of Toronto

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Leonard Tsuji

Researcher

Health and Society

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.
No publications since 2016.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (11 CIHR, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2018.

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Research

Two-Eyed Seeing Subarctic Canada Knowledge Translation Cree Best Practices Environment And Health Negotiated Agreements Health And Wellbeing

Latest papers

Physical Activity and Fitness of First Nations Youth in a Remote and Isolated Northern Ontario Community: A Needs Assessment.
Journal of community health · 2016 · senior author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Transforming Colonial Spaces back into Indigenous Places: Evaluating Health and Wellbeing Impacts
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$100,000
Traditional On-the-Land Activities in Subarctic Canada: Optimizing Health & Wellbeing Benefits While Minimizing Risks in the Context of Resource Development
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,342,575
Food Security and Climate Change in Subarctic Canada: Challenges and Opportunities
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$1,013,625

All 15 grants and awards

Transforming Colonial Spaces back into Indigenous Places: Evaluating Health and Wellbeing Impacts

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Miller, Adrian; Spence, Nicholas D

Keywords: Australia; Canada; Colonial Spaces; Health Impacts; Indigenous Cultural Places; Indigenous Perspectives; Two-Eyed Seeing; Wellbeing Impacts

$100,000

Traditional On-the-Land Activities in Subarctic Canada: Optimizing Health & Wellbeing Benefits While Minimizing Risks in the Context of Resource Development

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Moriarity, Robert

Keywords: Best Prcatices; Cree Homelands; Development; Environment And Health; Health And Wellbeing; James Bay; Knowledge Translation; Negotiated Agreements; On-The-Land Activities; Two-Eyed Seeing

$1,342,575

Food Security and Climate Change in Subarctic Canada: Challenges and Opportunities

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J

Keywords: Agroforestry Gardens; Best Parctices; Climate Change; Cree; Food Security; Health And Wellness; Land-Based Initiatives; Subarctic Canada; Traditional Pursuits; Two-Eyed Seeing

$1,013,625

Land-based Approaches to Health and Wellness in Isolated Indigenous Communities: Agroforestry Stewardship Practices and Traditional Pursuits

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Sarkar, Atanu

Keywords: Agroforestry Stewardship Practices; Food Security And Climate Change Adaptation; Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Communities; Indigenous Knowledge; Knowledge Translation; Land-Based Strategies; Scaling Out/Transferability Of Protocol; Traditional Pursuits; Two-Eyed Seeing

$100,000

Potential association between inflammatory markers and vitamin D status on cardiometabolic risk factors among Indigenous populations

SupervisorCIHR2018Fellowship - PA: First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health

Principal investigators: Zuk, Aleksandra M

Keywords: Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors; Environmental Health; Indigenous Health; Inflammation; Mediation Analysis; Vitamin D

$110,000

Food Security and Climate Change in Subarctic Canada: Challenges and Opportunities

Nominated PICIHR2018Team Grant: Food Security and Climate Change in the Canadian North - LOI

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Kataquapit, Gisele; Liberda, Eric N; Sarkar, Atanu

Keywords: Agroforestry Gardens; Best Practices; Climate Change; Cree; Food Security; Goose Harvesting; Health And Wellness; Land-Based Initiatives; Subarctic Canada; Two-Eyed Seeing

$15,000

Do Land-Centered Mitigation Strategies Positively Impact Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in subarctic Canada?

Nominated PICIHR2017Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Katapatuk, Billy; Liberda, Eric N; Solomon, Andrew

Keywords: Best Practices; Development; Environment And Health; Health And Wellbeing; Indigenous Homelands; Knowledge Translation; Land-Centred Mitigation Strategies; Negotiated Agreements; Subarctic Canada; Two-Eyed Seeing

$1,277,550

Land-Based Approaches to Wellness: The Sharing-the-Harvest Initiative

Nominated PICIHR2017Catalyst Grant: Indigenous Approaches to Wellness Research

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Solomon, Andrew; Liberda, Eric N

Keywords: Agroforestry Gardens; Best Practices; Cree; Environment And Wellness; Goose Harvesting; Indigenous Homelands; Knowledge Translation; Land-Based Initiatives; Subarctic Canada; Two-Eyed Seeing

$150,000

Indigenous Approaches to Wellness: Land-Centred Interventions in Subarctic Canada

Nominated PICIHR2017Catalyst Grant: Indigenous Approaches to Wellness Research

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J; Solomon, Andrew; Liberda, Eric N

Keywords: Best Practices; Cree; Environment And Wellness; In-The-Bush Activities; Indigenous Homelands; Knowledge Translations; Land-Centred Interventions; Subarctic Canada; Two-Eyed Seeing; Youth

$149,760

From subarctic Ontario, Canada, to the subtropics of New South Wales, Australia: the potential use of strategic environmental assessment to protect the core elements of Indigenous culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tsuji, Leonard J.S.

Keywords: Aboriginal peoples; subarctic Canada; subtropical Australia; cultural wellbeing; strategic environmental assessment; planning; innovative technology

$305,045

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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Leonard Tsuji

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Physical Activity and Fitness of First Nations Youth in a Remote and Isolated Northern Ontario Community: A Needs Assessment.

Transforming Colonial Spaces back into Indigenous Places: Evaluating Health and Wellbeing Impacts

Traditional On-the-Land Activities in Subarctic Canada: Optimizing Health & Wellbeing Benefits While Minimizing Risks in the Context of Resource Development

Food Security and Climate Change in Subarctic Canada: Challenges and Opportunities

Land-based Approaches to Health and Wellness in Isolated Indigenous Communities: Agroforestry Stewardship Practices and Traditional Pursuits

Potential association between inflammatory markers and vitamin D status on cardiometabolic risk factors among Indigenous populations

Food Security and Climate Change in Subarctic Canada: Challenges and Opportunities

Do Land-Centered Mitigation Strategies Positively Impact Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in subarctic Canada?

Land-Based Approaches to Wellness: The Sharing-the-Harvest Initiative

Indigenous Approaches to Wellness: Land-Centred Interventions in Subarctic Canada

From subarctic Ontario, Canada, to the subtropics of New South Wales, Australia: the potential use of strategic environmental assessment to protect the core elements of Indigenous culture

Frequent collaborators

Rhona Hanning