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Norman Giesbrecht

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Adjunct ProfessorSocial & Behavioural Health Sciences DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Norman Giesbrecht

Adjunct Professor

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
13 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2010.

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Latest papers

Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Action: Lessons From a Dramatic Increase in Access to Alcohol.
Drug and alcohol review · 2026 · first author
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Alcohol lobbying in Canada: a quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists.
Health promotion international · 2025

All 61 publications

Latest funding

Establishing a national community of practice: Mobilizing knowledge among policy stakeholders to address alcohol-related harms in Canada
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$46,480
Investigating the health impacts of allowing alcohol sales in grocery stores in Ontario
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Reducing Alcohol-Related Problems by Implementing Evidence-based Tools that Translate Research Knowledge into Prevention Practice
CIHR · 2010 · Nominated PI
$199,793

All 6 grants and awards

61 publications.

Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Action: Lessons From a Dramatic Increase in Access to Alcohol.

Giesbrecht N, Farkouh EK

Drug and alcohol review2026First author

DOI: 10.1111/dar.70170 PMID: 42132484

Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement.

Priore I, Vishnevsky N, Farkouh EK, Vallance K, Wettlaufer A, Price TR, Farrell-Low AM, Giesbrecht N, Asbridge M, Gagnon M, Shelley J, Sherk A, Shield KD, Solomon R, Stockwell TR, Thomas G, Thompson K, Naimi TS

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01061-1 PMID: 40506630

Alcohol lobbying in Canada: a quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists.

Grinberg A, Vallance K, Farkouh EK, Giesbrecht N, Wettlaufer A, Naimi TS

Health promotion international2025

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daaf141 PMID: 40879083

Public health efforts to prevent expansion of alcohol retail availability in neighbourhoods with factors associated with high rates of alcohol-related harms: A case report.

Hutchinson M, Swirski A, Giesbrecht N

Drug and alcohol review2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/dar.13859 PMID: 38685677

An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project.

Farkouh EK, Vallance K, Wettlaufer A, Giesbrecht N, Asbridge M, Farrell-Low AM, Gagnon M, Price TR, Priore I, Shelley J, Sherk A, Shield KD, Solomon R, Stockwell TR, Thompson K, Vishnevsky N, Naimi TS

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-024-00889-3 PMID: 38739320

The association between alcohol retail access and health care visits attributable to alcohol for individuals with and without a history of alcohol-related health-care use.

Myran DT, Friesen E, Talarico R, Gaudreault A, Taljaard M, Hobin E, Smith BT, Schwartz N, Giesbrecht N, Crépault JF, Tanuseputro P, Manuel DG

Addiction (Abingdon, England)2024

DOI: 10.1111/add.16566 PMID: 38804474

The impacts of alcohol marketing and advertising, and the alcohol industry's views on marketing regulations: Systematic reviews of systematic reviews.

Giesbrecht N, Reisdorfer E, Shield K

Drug and alcohol review2024First author

DOI: 10.1111/dar.13881 PMID: 38803126

Response to letter by Alain Braillon.

Giesbrecht N, Hobin E, Price T, Stockwell T, Vallance K, Wettlaufer A

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2023First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00830-0 PMID: 37923879

Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers.

Giesbrecht N, Wettlaufer A, Vallance K, Hobin E, Naimi T, Price T, Stockwell T

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2023First author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00786-1 PMID: 37337118

Reply to "Increased Prevalence of Breast and All-cause Cancer in Female Orthopedic Surgeons": Alcohol Consumption as a Possible Contributing Factor.

Farkouh EK, Michel IM, Poudel K, Giesbrecht N, Naimi TS

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews2023

DOI: 10.5435/jaaosglobal-d-22-00272 PMID: 37678817

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Norman Giesbrecht

Latest papers

Latest funding

Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Action: Lessons From a Dramatic Increase in Access to Alcohol.

Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement.

Alcohol lobbying in Canada: a quantitative analysis of the federal registry of lobbyists.

Public health efforts to prevent expansion of alcohol retail availability in neighbourhoods with factors associated with high rates of alcohol-related harms: A case report.

An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project.

The association between alcohol retail access and health care visits attributable to alcohol for individuals with and without a history of alcohol-related health-care use.

The impacts of alcohol marketing and advertising, and the alcohol industry's views on marketing regulations: Systematic reviews of systematic reviews.

Response to letter by Alain Braillon.

Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers.

Reply to "Increased Prevalence of Breast and All-cause Cancer in Female Orthopedic Surgeons": Alcohol Consumption as a Possible Contributing Factor.

Establishing a national community of practice: Mobilizing knowledge among policy stakeholders to address alcohol-related harms in Canada

Investigating the health impacts of allowing alcohol sales in grocery stores in Ontario

Reducing Alcohol-Related Problems by Implementing Evidence-based Tools that Translate Research Knowledge into Prevention Practice

Intervention Research to Inform the New Rapidly Unfolding Ontario Tobacco Strategy: Policy Window for a Population Health Model of Tobacco Retail Sales

Intervention Research on the New Rapidly Unfolding Ontario Tobacco Strategy: Policy Window for a Population Health Model of Tobacco Retail Sales

Does minimum pricing reduce the burden of disease and injury attributable to alcohol?

Frequent collaborators

Mark Asbridge

Kara Thompson

Gerald Thomas

Dolly Baliunas

Nadia Minian

Andriy Samokhvalov

Bernard Le Foll

Erin Hobin

Robert Mann

Peter Selby

Heather Orpana

Russell Callaghan

Jacob Shelley

Marilou Gagnon

Brian Rush

Monica Taljaard

Colleen Dell

Samantha Wells

Peter Tanuseputro

Kathryn Graham

Kevin Shield