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Michelle Firestone

ResearcherCentre for Urban Health SolutionsUniversity of Toronto

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Michelle Firestone

Researcher

Centre for Urban Health Solutions

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (4 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2023.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2019.

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Research

Substance Use Decriminalization Of Drugs Health Policy Incarceration Community-Based Research Criminalization Decriminalization Policy Evaluation

Latest papers

COVID-19 isolation and recovery sites evaluation: Lessons learned for systems innovation.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025 · first author
Circumstances surrounding opioid toxicity deaths within shelters in Ontario, Canada, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based descriptive cross-sectional study.
BMJ public health · 2025
Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024 · first author

All 26 publications

Latest funding

Alternatives to Criminalization of Drugs: Community-based Systems Mapping of Social and Health effects (ACDC SMASH)
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$401,625
Decriminalization of Drugs: A Community-Based Systems Approach to Planning for Evaluation
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$20,000
MARCO:POLO Marginalization & COVID-19: Promoting Opportunities for Learning & Outreach
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$313,804

All 17 grants and awards

26 publications.

COVID-19 isolation and recovery sites evaluation: Lessons learned for systems innovation.

Firestone M, Khoee K, Kolla G, O'Campo P, Nisenbaum R, Holness DL, Schlosser L, Beder M, Steer L, Pariseau T, Bayoumi AM

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2025First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01031-7 PMID: 40279072

Circumstances surrounding opioid toxicity deaths within shelters in Ontario, Canada, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based descriptive cross-sectional study.

Hamzat B, Leece P, McCormack D, Holton A, Dodd Z, Firestone M, Smoke A, Wolfson-Stofko B, Smuts H, Sereda J, Watford J, Watts T, Gomes T

BMJ public health2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-002394 PMID: 40734968

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 publique2024First author

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

Substance use care innovations during COVID-19: barriers and facilitators to the provision of safer supply at a toronto COVID-19 isolation and recovery site.

Kolla G, Tarannum CN, Fajber K, Worku F, Norris K, Long C, Fagundes R, Rucchetto A, Hannan E, Kikot R, Klaiman M, Firestone M, Bayoumi A, Laurence G, Hayman K

Harm reduction journal2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12954-024-00935-w PMID: 38243267

The multiple makings of a supervised consumption service in a hospital setting.

Long C, Guimond T, Bayoumi AM, Firestone M, Strike C

The International journal on drug policy2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104260 PMID: 38035448

Exploring the Lived Experience of Self-management Practices of Indigenous Men, Women and Two-spirited Individuals Living With Type 2 Diabetes in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand: A Scoping Review

Burnside H, Firestone M, Downey B, Ayaz B, Parry M

Canadian Journal of Diabetes20237 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2023.03.007

Corrigendum to "Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis" [Drug Alcohol Depend. 237 (2022) 109539].

Kenny KS, Kolla G, Firestone M, Bannerman M, Greig S, Flores BF, Dodd Z, Strike C, Bayoumi AM

Drug and alcohol dependence2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109701 PMID: 36414505

"They have their security, we have our community": Mutual support among people experiencing homelessness in encampments in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boucher LM, Dodd Z, Young S, Shahid A, Bayoumi A, Firestone M, Kendall CE

SSM. Qualitative research in health2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100163 PMID: 36060310

Using Concept Mapping to Define Indigenous Housing First in Hamilton, Ontario.

Firestone M, Zewge-Abubaker N, Salmon C, McKnight C, Hwang SW

International journal of environmental research and public health2022First author

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912374 PMID: 36231673

Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis.

Kenny KS, Kolla G, Firestone M, Bannerman M, Greig S, Flores BF, Dodd Z, Strike C, Bayoumi AM

Drug and alcohol dependence2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109539 PMID: 35777172

Alternatives to Criminalization of Drugs: Community-based Systems Mapping of Social and Health effects (ACDC SMASH)

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Dashwood, Thomas; Dodd, Zoe; Firestone, Michelle

Keywords: Decriminalization Of Drugs; Health Policy; Incarceration; Substance Use

$401,625

Decriminalization of Drugs: A Community-Based Systems Approach to Planning for Evaluation

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Dodd, Zoe; Firestone, Michelle

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Criminalization; Decriminalization; Policy Evaluation; Substance Use; System Dynamics; Systems Mapping

$20,000

MARCO:POLO Marginalization & COVID-19: Promoting Opportunities for Learning & Outreach

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

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Boucher, Lisa M; Dodd, Zoe; Durbin, Anna; Firestone, Michelle; Hayman, Kate; Isaacs, Barry J; Kolla, Gillian; Matheson, Flora I; Steer, Lorie A; Yakubovich, Alexa R; Young, Samantha V

Keywords: Developmental Disabilities; Homelessness; Intersectionality; Marginalization; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Program Evaluation; Realist Analysis; Substance Use Services; Systems Theory; Violence Against Women

$313,804

Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation of Web-based Partner Violence Screening and Safety Planning Applications

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr:Emerg. COVID Res. Gaps/Priorities- Social/Behavioural Science Approaches

Principal investigators: O'Campo, Patricia J

Keywords: Cultural Adaptation; Health Care Systems And Services; Historically Excluded Or Underserved Populations; Intimate Partner Violence; Social And Behavioural Research Methods; Structural Inequalities; Urban Areas And Populations

$489,153

Demystifying the 'black box' of prisoner re-entry and addressing the mental health and substance use needs and service disruptions for people released from custody during the COVID-19 pandemic

Co-investigatorCIHR2021O. Gr.: Addr. the Health Impacts of COVID-19 - Indigenous Health Research

Principal investigators: Matheson, Flora I; Waters, Laureen B; Mashford-Pringle, Angela

Keywords: Gba+ Analysis; Gender; Incarceration/Detention/Criminalized; Medicine Wheel Framework; Mental Health; Qualitative; Substance Use

$489,523

Alterations in Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Therapy due to the Pandemic (ALT-POP) Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 MH & Substance Use - Understanding Rapid System Transformations

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Wyman, Jennifer; Young, Samantha V

Keywords: Community-Based; Evaluation; Implementation Science; Multimethod; Opioid Agonist Therapy; Overdose; Treatment Access

$93,723

Supervised Consumption and COVID-19 in ON: an Evaluation (SCCONE)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: Eval of Harm Reduct. Appro. Address the Opioid Crisis - SCS Eval. Ontario

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M

Keywords: Administrative Data Analysis; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Harm Reduction; Implementation Science; Mathematical Optimization; Multi-Methods Research; Program Evaluation; Qualitative Research; Simulation Modelling; Supervised Consumption

Building Relationships and Mobilizing Research to Prevent Deaths of Indigenous People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Firestone, Michelle

Keywords: urban Indigenous health; homelessness; housing; social services; Toronto; grief; mental health; health equity

$24,998

Understanding Sex and Gender Influences on Self-Management Practices of Indigenous Men, Women and Two-Spirited Individuals Living with Type 2 Diabetes: A Strengths-Based, Patient-Oriented Approach.

SupervisorCIHR2019Fellowship: POR Awards - Trans. to Leadership - P1 - Indigenous Peoples' Health

Principal investigators: Burnside, Heather

Keywords: Diabetes; Indigenous; Patient-Oriented Research; Self-Management; Sex And Gender; Storytelling

$165,000

Advancing Equity through Health Professions Education: Collaborative Development of a Research Program based on the 'Coin Model of Privilege and Allyship'

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Nixon, Stephanie A; Maracle, Dawn T; Nnorom, Onyenyechukwu

Keywords: Allyship; Cultural Competence And Cultural Safety; Equity, Diversity And Inclusion; Gender Equity; Health Equity; Health Professions Education; Indigenous Health; Privilege; Racism; Social Determinants Of Health

$20,000

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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Michelle Firestone

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Latest papers

Latest funding

COVID-19 isolation and recovery sites evaluation: Lessons learned for systems innovation.

Circumstances surrounding opioid toxicity deaths within shelters in Ontario, Canada, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based descriptive cross-sectional study.

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

Substance use care innovations during COVID-19: barriers and facilitators to the provision of safer supply at a toronto COVID-19 isolation and recovery site.

The multiple makings of a supervised consumption service in a hospital setting.

Exploring the Lived Experience of Self-management Practices of Indigenous Men, Women and Two-spirited Individuals Living With Type 2 Diabetes in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand: A Scoping Review

Corrigendum to "Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis" [Drug Alcohol Depend. 237 (2022) 109539].

"They have their security, we have our community": Mutual support among people experiencing homelessness in encampments in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using Concept Mapping to Define Indigenous Housing First in Hamilton, Ontario.

Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis.

Building Relationships and Mobilizing Research to Prevent Deaths of Indigenous People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto

Frequent collaborators

Janet Smylie

Janet Smylie

Patricia O’Campo

Cheryllee Bourgeois

Cheryllee Bourgeois

Gillian Kolla

Gillian Kolla

Carol Strike

Benedikt Fischer

Rosane Nisenbaum

Molly Bannerman

Molly Bannerman

Michael Rotondi

Gillian Kolla

Janet Smylie

Maritt Kirst

Ahmed Bayoumi

Michael Rotondi

Billie-Jo Hardy

Lorie Steer

Samantha Young

Pamela Leece

Brett Wolfson-Stofko

Kate Hayman

Lisa Avery

Kelly Mcshane

Monica Parry

Christopher Mushquash

Robert Schwartz

Tara Gomes

Bernice Downey