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Nancy Baxter

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ProfessorInstitute of Health PolicyUniversity of Toronto

Nancy Baxter

Professor

Institute of Health Policy

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 CIHR), most recently in 2019.
Supervised 4 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2018.

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Publications

123

Citations

h-index

171

Collaborators

Grants

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Research

Health Services Research Qualitative Research Colorectal Cancer Surgery Cancer Health Behaviour Change Clinicians Continuing Medical Education

Latest papers

Closing the knowledge gap: identifying research priorities for firearm-related injury and mortality in Canada.
Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2026
Patient-Reported Symptoms and Mental Health Event Risks in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.
Cancer medicine · 2025
The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.
Sociology of health & illness · 2024

All 40 publications

Latest funding

Firearm-related injury and death in Canada: Identifying research priorities
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Emergency general surgical conditions in pregnancy and the post-partum period: A population-based study of maternal and peri-natal outcomes
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$75,000
Toward equity in cancer genetics: identifying racial disparities in cancer genetics services
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$734,400

All 49 grants and awards

40 publications.

Closing the knowledge gap: identifying research priorities for firearm-related injury and mortality in Canada.

Alphonsus L, Sorvari A, Yakubovich AR, Gill C, Bailey A, Snider C, Cukier W, Waller I, Thompson W, Toigo S, Baxter N, Brown RB, Saunders N, Gomez D

Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice2026

DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.46.1.01 PMID: 41538271

Patient-Reported Symptoms and Mental Health Event Risks in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.

Gupta S, Li Q, Nathan P, Kurdyak P, Baxter N, Sutradhar R, Coburn N

Cancer medicine2025

DOI: 10.1002/cam4.71096 PMID: 40747605

The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.

Facey M, Baxter N, Hammond Mobilio M, Moulton CA, Paradis E

Sociology of health & illness2024

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13746 PMID: 38300726

Surgical safety checklist compliance process as a moral hazard: An institutional ethnography.

Facey M, Baxter N, Hammond Mobilio M, Peter E, Moulton CA, Paradis E

PloS one2024

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298224 PMID: 38408085

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

Brière R, Habashi R, Merchant S, Cadili L, Alhumoud Z, Lau R, Gawad N, Valji R, Balmes PN, Tan JGK

Canadian Journal of Surgery20231 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1503/cjs.014223 PMID: W4389488805

Women Empowering Women: Assessing the American College of Surgeons Women in Surgery Committee Mentorship Program.

Oppenheimer-Velez M, Sims C, Labiner H, Baxter N, Kozar R, McCoy J, Sanfey H, Litle V, Klingensmith M, Pories S

Journal of the American College of Surgeons2022

DOI: 10.1097/xcs.0000000000000272 PMID: 35839418

Risk factors for psychological morbidity and the protective role of coping self-efficacy in young women with breast cancer early in diagnosis: a national multicentre cohort study.

Howell DM, Metcalfe K, Kong S, Stephen J, Olivotto IA, Baxter N, Friedenreich CM, Warner E, Akbari MR, McBain K, Narod S, Quan ML

Breast cancer research and treatment2022

DOI: 10.1007/s10549-022-06576-6 PMID: 35462611

Incidence and Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes Among Survivors of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using the IMPACT Cohort.

De R, Sutradhar R, Kurdyak P, Aktar S, Pole JD, Baxter N, Nathan PC, Gupta S

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2021

DOI: 10.1200/jco.20.02019 PMID: 33492982

Social Media and mHealth Technology for Cancer Screening: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Ruco A, Dossa F, Tinmouth J, Llovet D, Jacobson J, Kishibe T, Baxter N

Journal of medical Internet research2021Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/26759 PMID: 34328423

Online Public Interest in Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Xu R, Brown P, Baxter N, Sawka AM

JCO clinical cancer informatics2021

DOI: 10.1200/cci.21.00036 PMID: 34138637

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Nancy Baxter

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Closing the knowledge gap: identifying research priorities for firearm-related injury and mortality in Canada.

Patient-Reported Symptoms and Mental Health Event Risks in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.

The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.

Surgical safety checklist compliance process as a moral hazard: An institutional ethnography.

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

Women Empowering Women: Assessing the American College of Surgeons Women in Surgery Committee Mentorship Program.

Risk factors for psychological morbidity and the protective role of coping self-efficacy in young women with breast cancer early in diagnosis: a national multicentre cohort study.

Incidence and Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes Among Survivors of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using the IMPACT Cohort.

Social Media and mHealth Technology for Cancer Screening: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Online Public Interest in Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Frequent collaborators

Toni Zhong

Lawrence Paszat

Rinku Sutradhar

Jill Tinmouth

Linda Rabeneck

Marko Simunovic

Natalie Coburn

Tulin Cil

Fiona Webster

Fahima Dossa

Elise Paradis

John Semple

Sarah Knowles

Sumit Gupta

Paul Kurdyak

Muriel Brackstone

Andrea Covelli

Gregg Nelson

Melissa Brouwers

Kasmintan Schrader

Mitchell Brown

Tony Panzarella

Yvonne Bombard

Jordan Lerner-Ellis

Kelly Metcalfe

Andreas Laupacis

Andrea Eisen

Cagla Eskicioglu

Christian John Finley

Bradley Allan Petrisor

Timothy Whelan

Edward Passos

John Agzarian

Paul Engels

Ilun Yang

Dennis Hong

Bobby Shayegan

Haider Samawi

Ivy Bourgeault

Mark Norman Levine