Lisa Richardson, University of Toronto

Research

Education And Training Health Equity Patient Oriented Research Technology

Latest papers

Self and System Transformation: Leadership Competencies for Advancing Indigenous Health.
Healthcare management forum · 2026 · senior author
The violence of curriculum: Dismantling systemic racism, colonisation and indigenous erasure within medical education.
Medical education · 2025
From trauma-informed approaches to self-determination: Creating ethical spaces in health professions education research.
Medical education · 2025 · first author

All 24 publications

Latest funding

How a Tertiary Healthcare Centre in Toronto Developed and Implemented Ten Wise Practices for Indigenous Reconciliation and the Influence of those Practices on Access to and Quality of Healthcare for Indigenous Patients: Identifying Challenges, Barriers and Next Steps Towards Indigenous Reconciliation
CIHR · 2021 · Supervisor
$108,500
ECHO Canada Patient Oriented Research and Health Equity: A Proposal to Create a Virtual National Training Entity
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$3,959
Indigenous Health Conference: Challenging Health Inequities
CIHR · 2014 · Co-investigator
$12,000

All 3 grants and awards

24 publications.

01

Self and System Transformation: Leadership Competencies for Advancing Indigenous Health.

Anderson M, Richardson L

Healthcare management forum2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08404704261468564 PMID: 42538874

02

The violence of curriculum: Dismantling systemic racism, colonisation and indigenous erasure within medical education.

Razack S, Richardson L, Pillay SR

Medical education2025

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15470 PMID: 38992874

03

From trauma-informed approaches to self-determination: Creating ethical spaces in health professions education research.

Richardson L, Anderson M

Medical education2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/medu.70065 PMID: 41131943

04

Representation of racialised and ethnically diverse populations in multicentre randomised controlled trials of GLP-1 medicines for obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of gaps.

Jeyakumar Y, Richardson L, Sarma S, Retnakaran R, Kramer CK

BMJ global health2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017177 PMID: 39608857

05

Anti-racism in CanMEDS 2025.

Osei-Tutu K, Duchesne N, Barnabe C, Richardson L, Razack S, Thoma B, Maniate JM

Canadian medical education journal2023

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.75844 PMID: 36998489

06

'First in family' experiences in a Canadian medical school: A critically reflexive study.

Wright SR, Boyd VA, Okafor I, Sharma M, Giroux R, Richardson L, Brosnan C

Medical education2023

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15116 PMID: 37226410

07

Indigenous and minority groups in diabetes trials – Authors' reply

Sarma S, Richardson L, Neary J

The Lancet Global Health20231 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(23)00084-0

08

One hundred years of solitude—underrepresentation of Indigenous and minority groups in diabetes trials

Sarma S, Richardson L, Neary J

The Lancet Global Health20226 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00356-4 PMID: W4296163277

09

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise: Engaging Indigenous ways of knowing to foster critical consciousness in medical education.

Herzog LS, Wright SR, Pennington JJ, Richardson L

Medical teacher2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2021.1956679 PMID: 34369238

10

Truth and reconciliation in Canada's health system.

Richardson L, Boozary A

Lancet (London, England)2021First author

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01953-x PMID: 34454689

How a Tertiary Healthcare Centre in Toronto Developed and Implemented Ten Wise Practices for Indigenous Reconciliation and the Influence of those Practices on Access to and Quality of Healthcare for Indigenous Patients: Identifying Challenges, Barriers and Next Steps Towards Indigenous Reconciliation

SupervisorCIHR2021Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Central Canada 2 year

Principal investigators: Maclean, Tammy

Keywords: Health Equity; Indigenous Health Research; Indigenous Research Methods; Mixed-Methods Research; Quality And Access To Healthcare; Trc Calls To Action In Health Services

$108,500

ECHO Canada Patient Oriented Research and Health Equity: A Proposal to Create a Virtual National Training Entity

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Training Grant: SPOR National Training Entity - LOI

Principal investigators: Crawford, Allison; Abramovich, Alex; Alloo, Javed; Boivin, Lisa; Linklater, Renee; Tepper, Joshua D; Clarkin, Chantalle L; Hatcher, Simon; Henderson, Jo; Lunsky, Yona J; Richardson, Lisa; Serhal, Eva; Soklaridis, Sophie; Strudwick, Gillian

Keywords: Education And Training; Health Equity; Patient Oriented Research; Technology

$3,959

Indigenous Health Conference: Challenging Health Inequities

Co-investigatorCIHR2014Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Banerji, Anna

Keywords: Conference; Health Equity; Indigenous Health; Inter-Disciplinary; Knowledge Translation

$12,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Medicine
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Family Medicine
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Other

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Ayelet Kuper

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

3 shared papers, latest 2018

Marcia Anderson

Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

2 shared papers, latest 2026

John Neary

Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2023

Nicole Woods

Department of Family and Community Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Kannin Osei-Tutu

Family Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Kulamakan Kulasegaram

Department of Family and Community Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Andrew Boozary

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Nancy McNaughton

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Sarah Levitt

Psychiatry

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Natalie Kozij

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Ravi Retnakaran

Endocrinology and Metabolism

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Cheryl Barnabe

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Sarah Khan

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2017

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Education And Training Dear Professor Richardson, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Self and System Transformation: Leadership Competencies for Advancing Indigenous Health." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "ECHO Canada Patient Oriented Research and Health Equity: A Proposal to Create a Virtual National Training Entity" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]