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Natasha Saunders

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Natasha Saunders

Researcher

Pediatrics

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.
33 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 14 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Research

Mental Health Injury Access To Care Inequities Pediatrics Virtual Care Children And Adolescents Health Service Delivery

Latest papers

Risk of Injury Among Children and Youths Whose Mothers Experienced Violent Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
JAMA network open · 2026 · senior author
Intentional injuries in newcomers to Alberta, 2016-2023.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and perinatal mental illness: a population-based study.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026

All 42 publications

Latest funding

Understanding Provincial and Territorial Suicide Prevention Efforts in Canada (SPEC-PT): A Mixed-Methods Study to Inform a National Suicide Prevention Strategy
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$745,876
Pediatric Outcomes of Children Whose Mothers Experience Violence: A Multi-Province Study.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$569,924
Maternal Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (m-ADHD): Mental Health, Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$604,352

All 20 grants and awards

42 publications.

Risk of Injury Among Children and Youths Whose Mothers Experienced Violent Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Fazio M, Haas B, Bahreinian S, Andrei S, Brown HK, Raveendran T, Saunders N

JAMA network open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.33054 PMID: 42726480

Intentional injuries in newcomers to Alberta, 2016-2023.

Mahajan C, Saunders N, Benny C

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01246-2 PMID: 42675336

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and perinatal mental illness: a population-based study.

Vigod SN, Zipursky J, Babujee A, Barker LC, Bolea-Alamanac B, Clark CT, Cohen E, Dennis CL, Feldman M, Gomes T, Habib S, Lu H, Maxwell C, Patrikar A, Ray JG, Saunders N, Toulany A, Xie A, Brown HK

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-026-03206-0 PMID: 42663665

Traumatic brain injury, interpersonal violence, and postnatal mental illness: population-based study.

Brown HK, Saunders N, Chan V, Mollayeva T, Patrikar A, Fung K, Barker L, Colantonio A, Cohen E, Dennis CL, Ray JG, Wodchis WP, Vigod SN

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-026-03090-8 PMID: 42053637

Maternal attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and adverse obstetrical and perinatal outcomes: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada.

Zipursky JS, Vigod SN, Babujee A, Barker LC, Bolea-Alamanac B, Clark CT, Cohen E, Dennis CL, Gomes T, Lu H, Maxwell C, Patrikar A, Ray JG, Saunders N, Toulany A, Xie A, Brown HK

American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajogmf.2026.101969 PMID: 41990995

Insights into vulnerable road user injury trends in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Canadian city trends 2012-2022.

Rothman L, Howard A, Winters M, Saunders N, Macpherson A, Hagel BE, Macarthur C, HubkaRao T, Pike I, Zubair S, Cloutier MS, Harris MA, Chevrier T, Zanotto M, Fuselli P, Batomen B

Journal of safety research2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2026.04.017 PMID: 42744516

Long-Term Trends in Pediatric Self-Injury in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Saunders N, Benjamin H, Pechlivanoglou P, Yang A, Raveendran T, Butler EA, Ray JG, Nathwani AA, Karanikas A, Cohen E

JAMA pediatrics2026First author

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2026.0217 PMID: 41837966

Paediatric burn injury trends in Ontario, Canada: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study.

Gus E, To T, Fish J, Diong C, Saunders N

Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/ip-2025-046029 PMID: 41942172

Adherence to Burn Center Referral Criteria for Pediatric Burns.

Gus E, To T, Fish J, Diong C, Saunders N

JAMA network open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.59159 PMID: 41678190

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

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Natasha Saunders

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Risk of Injury Among Children and Youths Whose Mothers Experienced Violent Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Intentional injuries in newcomers to Alberta, 2016-2023.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and perinatal mental illness: a population-based study.

Traumatic brain injury, interpersonal violence, and postnatal mental illness: population-based study.

Maternal attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and adverse obstetrical and perinatal outcomes: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada.

Insights into vulnerable road user injury trends in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Canadian city trends 2012-2022.

Long-Term Trends in Pediatric Self-Injury in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Paediatric burn injury trends in Ontario, Canada: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study.

Adherence to Burn Center Referral Criteria for Pediatric Burns.

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

Frequent collaborators

Astrid Guttmann

Eyal Cohen

Paul Kurdyak

Alene Toulany

Simone Vigod

Yona Lunsky

Yona Lunsky

Daphne Maurer

Mario Cappelli

Teresa To

Cindy-Lee Dennis

Julie Strychowsky

Kimberly Moran

Purnima Sundar

Tatyana Mollayeva

Carolyn Snider

Vincy Chan

Jennifer Zwicker

Antoine Eskander

Angela Colantonio

William Gardner

Tara Gomes

Jennifer Zwicker

Juveria Zaheer

Lisa Wang

Annette Bailey

Alice Charach

Susitha Wanigaratne

Jonathan Zipursky

Andrew Howard

Linda Rothman

Andrea Evans

Linda Rothman

Lucy Barker

Sevan Hopyan

J Michael Paterson

Baiju Shah

Ronit Mesterman

Nancy Baxter

Magdalena Janus